Hundreds of Pakistanis held demonstrations across the Balochistan province to protest the attack on Friday near the Medina Mosque in Mastung district. The demonstrators demanded that the authorities capture the mastermind of the attack. To condemn the attack, people closed shops and commercial centers throughout the province, especially in Quetta, Mastung, Ziarat and Kalat in Balochistan. Political parties and various commercial organizations announced that they supported this closure action.
The death toll in the suicide attack, which was carried out when many people gathered on the occasion of Mawlid Kandili, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), rose to 62.