{"id":411282,"date":"2026-02-06T14:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411282\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:52:08","slug":"31-killed-in-blast-at-mosque-in-pakistan-capital-official-says-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411282\/","title":{"rendered":"31 killed in blast at mosque in Pakistan capital, official says &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blast took place amid talk of military operationpublished at 13:38 GMT<\/p>\n<p>13:38 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\">Umer Draz Nangiana<br \/>BBC Urdu<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The blast happened at a time when there is a talk of a<br \/>\nmilitary operation in Tirah Valley in Pakistan&#8217;s restive Afghan border region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of families have recently migrated from the valley<br \/>\nto safer locations although, Pakistan government has not officially confirmed<br \/>\nthe operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pakistan recently witnessed a major co-ordinated militant<br \/>\nattack at multiple locations in the province of Balochistan, where security<br \/>\nforces on Thursday said they killed more than 200 militants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In November last year, a suicide attack targeting district<br \/>\ncourts in Islamabad killed 12 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Uzbekistan\u2019s president is also visiting Islamabad. The site<br \/>\nof the blast is not too far away from the Pakistani capital&#8217;s red zone area<br \/>\nthat houses important government buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year was the deadliest year in over a decade, as<br \/>\ncombat-related deaths surged 74%, with militants accounting for more than half<br \/>\nthe death toll, according to a new report released by an independent think<br \/>\ntank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blast took place amid talk of military operationpublished at 13:38 GMT 13:38 GMT Umer Draz NangianaBBC Urdu The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-411282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}