ISLAMABAD: The death toll from the Islamabad imambargah attack rose to 36 on Saturday, a spokesperson at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) confirmed.<\/p>\n
The attack occurred at Imambargah Qasr-i-Khadijatul Kubra on the city\u2019s outskirts. The death toll was expected to rise.<\/p>\n
\u201cA 21-year-old man, who was brought from the imambargah, died,\u201d said Dr Aneeza Jalil while speaking to Dawn. She added that nine of the injured are in \u201cvery serious condition\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe number of deaths has reached 33, and nine patients are in very serious condition.\u201d<\/p>\n
She further stated that 149 injured and 28 bodies were brought to Pims on Friday following the attack.<\/p>\n
Separately, HBS Hospital\u2019s Dr Riaz Janjua confirmed to Dawn that three deaths from the attack were reported at his hospital.<\/p>\n
Victims laid to rest
\nFunerals are taking place on Saturday for some of the victims of a suicide blast at an imambargah in Islamabad during Friday prayers.<\/p>\n
A mass funeral for 13 victims of the Tarlai attack was held in the federal capital, with a large crowd in attendance. Chairman of Interior Affairs Raja Khurram Nawaz attended the prayers.<\/p>\n
Inspector Bahadur Ali of Gilgit-Baltistan, martyred in the attack, was also laid to rest with full honours at Police Lines Headquarters.<\/p>\n
Senior police officers, including Islamabad IGP Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi, attended the funeral. The body was later dispatched to his native area with full state honours.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe attacker was stopped at the gate and detonated himself,\u201d a security source told AFP.<\/p>\n
Muhammad Kazim, 52, said an \u201cextremely powerful\u201d explosion ripped through the building as prayers were just starting.<\/p>\n
Another worshipper, Imran Mahmood, told AFP there was a gunfight between the bomber and volunteer security personnel at the mosque.<\/p>\n
Mourners carry the coffin of a victim of the Islamabad imambargah attack on February 7, 2026. \u2014 AFP
\n\u201cThe suicide attacker was trying to move forward, but one of our injured volunteers fired at him from behind, hitting him in the thigh,\u201d he told AFP.<\/p>\n
He then \u201cdetonated the explosives\u201d, Mahmood added.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s attack was the deadliest in the Pakistani capital since September 2008, when 60 people were killed in a suicide truck bomb blast that destroyed part of the five-star Marriott hotel.<\/p>\n
Suicide bomber\u2019s identity<\/p>\n
Sources close to the investigation told Dawn that the attacker \u2014 whose severed head was found at the crime scene \u2014 had been identified as a resident of Gunj, in the walled city of Peshawar. They said that forensic investigators tracked his identity through the Nadra database.<\/p>\n
Preliminary investigation suggested that he was linked to the IS militant group and had travelled to Afghanistan multiple times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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