BEIJING, Feb 8 (Reuters) - China condemned an attack on a Shi'ite mosque in Islamabad, pledging support on Sunday for the Pakistan government's efforts to "maintain national security and stability". China is "deeply shocked" by Friday's attack,

Pakistani security forces raided multiple locations and arrested four suspects, including the alleged mastermind, behind a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of the capital that killed 31 people, the interior minister said Saturday.

An affiliate of the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing inside a Syiah mosque on the outskirts of Pakistan's capital that killed 31 people and wounded 169 others,

Security sources said that the Afghan mastermind linked to Daesh, has been arrested. They said the planning, training and radicalization for the attack were conducted in Afghanistan by Daesh. During the operation, one son of the soil was martyred and three others injured.

Alongside the claim, ISKP released a photograph of the suicide bomber with his face blurred, in keeping with its standard propaganda practice.

Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif says the tragedy suggested that local militants operating from Afghan territory are capable of striking the heart of the capital

Pakistani authorities have made a major breakthrough in the investigation into the suicide terrorist attack at an imambargah in Islamabad’s Tarlai Kalan area, arresting four facilitators and an Afghan mastermind linked to Islamic State (Daesh), security sources said.