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Deputy Inspector General of Police Sohail Chattha said a police officer of the Eagle Squad was martyred in the blast while four others officers were injured. He lauded the police for "saving Islamabad from a major foul play.”
Another blast later in the day near the money exchange market in Jalalabad injured six people, according to police in Nangahar province.
The device exploded after being attached to the vehicle they were travelling in on Saturday evening, Rehman Gul Khattak, senior government official for North Waziristan, said in a statement.
The blast tore through the Kocha Risaldar area of the city moments before Friday prayers were to start, shattering the interior and showering the streets with broken glass.
Thursday's explosion was near the Sayeda Zeinab mausoleum in Damascus, Syria's most visited Shiite pilgrimage site, and came on the eve of the annual Shiite Ashura commemoration.
Green Village is separate from the nearby Green Zone, a walled-off and heavily fortified part of Kabul that is home to several embassies including the US and British facilities.
The country's emergency services were called to the club at 3am (2300 GMT on Saturday) and extinguished the fire before it could spread, citing a statement from the department.
Authorities are also probing the possibility that people inside the compound helped to coordinate the attack, the senior provincial police official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"A total of 61 civilians and seven soldiers have been killed in the attack," said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in Barkhan, about 600 kilometers (360 miles) northeast of Quetta, the provincial capital.