At least 48+ people were killed and more than 180+ others injured after a car bomb was detonated outside a Shia mosque, just as locals were leaving after the evening's services.
Authorities suspected the Sunni militant group Lashkar-e Jhangvi of being behind the attacks.
[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] This was the first major incident within the city since a wave of target killings left more than 300 dead in the summer of 2011.
These are the members of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and arrested during the targeted operation in Manghopir on 13 March 2013.
[11] In 2024, Umer Farooq, a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan militant and one of the prime accused of the attack was killed in an intelligence based operation.