Pakistan’s celebrities spoke out in solidarity with the country after a suicide attack outside Islamabad’s district courts on Tuesday, killing 12 and injuring 36. It was the first major attack in the capital in nearly three years. 

 

Actress Maya Ali took to Instagram to express her despair saying that so many lives were lost for no good reason, pleading to God to help make the madness stop. 

 

Singer Farhan Saeed took to X to express his solidarity with Pakistan, adding that ‘our enemies’ do not like that Pakistan is prospering.

 

Actor Adnan Siddiqui posted on his Instagram stories, saying that there is ‘no place in this world for such hatred.’ 

 

 

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the blast. 

 

Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said, the man tried to enter the court but was not given access, the bomber’s route was traced using AI and vowed that “whoever did this will bear the consequences.”