Residents in Islamabad were facing tightened security checks on Wednesday in the wake of a suicide bombing that left top officials vowing to halt the rise in deadly attacks. The district court remained closed on Wednesday while security was stepped up at other court buildings across the city, and long queues of vehicles formed at checkpoints.

Suicide bombing in Pakistan and car explosion in India kill at least 20 people and heighten tensions between nuclear neighbours

Islamabad, Pakistan – Less than two hours after a suicide blast at the entrance of the district court in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Tuesday, Khawaja Asif, the country’s defence minister, called the attack a “wake-up call” and “ a war for all of Pakistan ”.

The rare explosions in the country’s capitals have not been directly linked, but there are fears the governments will blame each other after their previous military conflict alarmed the world.

Explosions in Islamabad and New Delhi are still being investigated, but finger-pointing has already begun and threatens to escalate simmering cross-border conflict.

An explosion injured at least eight people outside a court building in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Tuesday, a police spokesperson said. Some of them are in critical condition, he said. "We are probing what kind of blast it was.

Judges, lawyers and officials who carried out rulings under Pakistan’s un-Islamic laws were targeted,' the Pakistan Taliban said in a statement, claiming responsibility for the attack