""Everyone started running inside out of panic. I have seen at least five dead bodies lying at the front gate," Mohammed Shahzad Butt, a lawyer who witnessed the attack, told the AFP."
""Our authorities will get to the bottom of this conspiracy," he said during a visit to Thimphu, the capital of neighboring Bhutan."
A suicide attacker detonated explosives near a police vehicle inside the district court complex in central Islamabad, killing at least 12 people and injuring 21, with four critically wounded at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences. A lawyer at the scene reported seeing at least five dead bodies at the front gate. Jamatul Ahrar, an affiliate of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, claimed responsibility. Pakistan blames the Taliban in Afghanistan for sheltering and supporting the TTP. Cross-border tensions recently escalated into intense attacks and Islamabad struck Kabul and Kandahar by air. A car bomb in New Delhi on November 10 killed at least eight; Prime Minister Narendra Modi called it a conspiracy.
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