{"id":1605,"date":"2026-02-09T16:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:29:37","slug":"chinas-xi-extends-condolences-over-islamabad-mosque-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=1605","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Xi extends condolences over Islamabad mosque blast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday sent a message of condolences to President Asif Ali Zardari over last week&#8217;s deadly explosion in Islamabad.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xi &#8220;strongly condemned the violence and terrorist acts against innocent civilians&#8221;, and said China would support Pakistan in fighting terrorism, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, an attacker opened fire at the gates of an Imambargah in Islamabad before setting off a suicide bomb and killing at least 31 people in the deadliest attack of its kind in the capital in more than a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the death toll from the deadly blast at the Khadija Al-Kubra Mosque in Tarlai, Islamabad, has risen further as two more injured victims succumbed to their injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another injured person, Ali Naqi Bosan, who was hurt in the Tarlai mosque blast, passed away after undergoing treatment. He was initially brought to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) and was later shifted to a private hospital by his family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 30-year-old remained under treatment for two days at the private hospital before he breathed his last. With his death, the number of martyrs from the blast has risen to 35, according to initial reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ali Bosan\u2019s father, Farman Ali Bosan, was also martyred in the same explosion at the Khadija Al-Kubra Mosque in Tarlai. Both father and son belonged to Ratodero in Sindh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ali Bosan was the nephew of Polio Eradication Program advisor Altaf Bosan. According to family sources, Ali Naqi Bosan will be laid to rest beside his father in Islamabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Separately, the spokesperson for Polyclinic Hospital confirmed the death of another injured victim, Syed Aqeel Abbas. He was brought to the Polyclinic Hospital immediately after the blast and underwent surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite intensive treatment in the ICU, Syed Aqeel Abbas succumbed to his injuries on Monday. Following his death, his body was shifted from the Polyclinic to Imambargah Al-Sadiq in G-9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday sent a message of condolences to President Asif Ali Zardari over last week&#8217;s deadly explosion in Islamabad. Xi &#8220;strongly condemned the violence and terrorist acts against innocent civilians&#8221;, and said China would support Pakistan in fighting terrorism, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. On Friday, an attacker opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}