Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed grief and sorrow over death of a person and injuries to thirteen people in a bomb blast in Saddar area of Karachi.

The Interior Minister has commended the efforts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police and the investigation agencies in this regard.

Antonio Guterres says Houses of worship should be havens, not targets, and condoled to those who have lost loved ones, and expressed his solidarity with the people of Pakistan.

Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of the Islamic State terrorist group (banned in Russia), killed his family with a bomb during a US-led anti-terrorist operation which targeted him in Syria, a senior US administration official told journalists on Thursday

Heads of secret agencies including the Director-General Intelligence Bureau (DG-IB) and the head of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) attended the sessions.

The sources say that the officials of law enforcement agencies have shifted the suspects to some unknown place for interrogation.

The injured have been shifted to nearby Mayo hospital where the doctors say condition of eight injured persons is serious.

DPO Abdul Samad Khan says that police have cordoned off the area and launched search operation to look for suspicious activity.