Pakistan’s interior minister says a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a police vehicle outside the gate of a district court in the capital, Islamabad, on Tuesday, killing 12 people and wounding 27.

A suicide attack outside a court in Pakistan's capital Islamabad has killed 12 people and injured at least 27 others, the country's interior minister said. Mohsin Naqvi said a bomber was planning to attack the district courthouse but was unable to get inside.

Pakistan has opened a probe into the suicide bombing outside an Islamabad district court that left 12 dead the day before.

The suicide bombing in Islamabad injured 27 others, officials said. Officials blamed the attack on the Pakistani Taliban, which has not claimed responsibility.

Pakistani security forces have killed 20 Pakistani Taliban insurgents in raids on hideouts in the northwest region bordering Afghanistan

A military official accused the Pakistani Taliban of staging the attack, which took place near a courthouse in Islamabad.

Pakistan’s interior minister says a suicide bomber struck outside a district court in Islamabad, killing 12 people

These successive blasts in the capitals of India and Pakistan have raised tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals, who clashed in May following a terror attack in the disputed territory of Kashmir.