Peshawar Terror Attacks

The lawmakers from the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) on Wednesday came down heavily on the previous Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) regime over its counter-terror policy, the Dawn reported.

India extended condolences to the families of the victims of the deadly terror attack that shook Peshawar in Pakistan yesterday.

A group of heavily-armed terrorists from the Pakistani Taliban attacked a police station in the suburbs of the restive northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday and killed three policemen, including a senior police officer, authorities said.

Ehsanullah Ehsan, the Taliban terrorist responsible for shooting Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai in 2012 and carrying out the deadly Peshawar Army school terror attack in 2014-in which 132 students were killed-has escaped from prison, according to an audio clip released by him.

Taking a strong stand at the United Nations General Assembly, India on Saturday called out on Pakistan after the country's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi alleged that New Delhi was involved in the Peshawar school terror attack in 2014. While rejecting Mr Qureshi's statement, Eenam Ganbhir, India's First Secretary in Permanent Mission of Indi...

Pakistan today hanged four more "hardcore" Taliban terrorists convicted of "heinous" terrorism-related offences by controversial military courts, taking the number to over 160 since the Peshawar terror attack in 2014.

Pakistan today executed three more Taliban terrorists convicted of "heinous" terror related offences by military courts, taking the number to over 150 since the Peshawar attack in 2014.

Suicide bombers attacked a court complex in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing five people and wounding 20, police officials said, the latest incident in a new surge of Islamist violence.

Two gunmen on a motorcycle killed three soldiers Sunday near the north-western city of Peshawar, police said.

Four suicide bombers who were trying to attack a Christian colony in Peshawar were killed early Friday during a gunfight with security forces, the army said.

Police said they caught a man planting a bomb at a crowded bus station in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar today, a day after Taliban gunmen attacked a nearby university, leaving 21 people dead.

In the wake of Peshawar University attack, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah today said Pakistan should wake up and forge friendship with India to defeat terror forces even as he observed that there are elements in both countries who do not want peace between them.

As Pakistan remembers the victims of the Peshawar school terror attack on the first anniversary of the massacre, Islamabad's high commissioner to New Delhi Abdul Basit today said their country was the worst hit by terrorism.

The survivors of Pakistan's deadliest ever terror massacre have expressed solidarity with the victims of the Paris attacks, describing those responsible as "animals" who had "nothing to do with Islam".

A palpable sense of security is returning to Pakistan as a crackdown on militancy bears fruit, but critics warn the government has not taken long-term steps to tackle the underlying scourge of extremist Islam.

The lawmakers from the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) on Wednesday came down heavily on the previous Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) regime over its counter-terror policy, the Dawn reported.

India extended condolences to the families of the victims of the deadly terror attack that shook Peshawar in Pakistan yesterday.

A group of heavily-armed terrorists from the Pakistani Taliban attacked a police station in the suburbs of the restive northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday and killed three policemen, including a senior police officer, authorities said.

Ehsanullah Ehsan, the Taliban terrorist responsible for shooting Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai in 2012 and carrying out the deadly Peshawar Army school terror attack in 2014-in which 132 students were killed-has escaped from prison, according to an audio clip released by him.

Taking a strong stand at the United Nations General Assembly, India on Saturday called out on Pakistan after the country's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi alleged that New Delhi was involved in the Peshawar school terror attack in 2014. While rejecting Mr Qureshi's statement, Eenam Ganbhir, India's First Secretary in Permanent Mission of Indi...

Pakistan today hanged four more "hardcore" Taliban terrorists convicted of "heinous" terrorism-related offences by controversial military courts, taking the number to over 160 since the Peshawar terror attack in 2014.

Pakistan today executed three more Taliban terrorists convicted of "heinous" terror related offences by military courts, taking the number to over 150 since the Peshawar attack in 2014.

Suicide bombers attacked a court complex in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing five people and wounding 20, police officials said, the latest incident in a new surge of Islamist violence.

Two gunmen on a motorcycle killed three soldiers Sunday near the north-western city of Peshawar, police said.

Four suicide bombers who were trying to attack a Christian colony in Peshawar were killed early Friday during a gunfight with security forces, the army said.

Police said they caught a man planting a bomb at a crowded bus station in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar today, a day after Taliban gunmen attacked a nearby university, leaving 21 people dead.

In the wake of Peshawar University attack, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah today said Pakistan should wake up and forge friendship with India to defeat terror forces even as he observed that there are elements in both countries who do not want peace between them.

As Pakistan remembers the victims of the Peshawar school terror attack on the first anniversary of the massacre, Islamabad's high commissioner to New Delhi Abdul Basit today said their country was the worst hit by terrorism.

The survivors of Pakistan's deadliest ever terror massacre have expressed solidarity with the victims of the Paris attacks, describing those responsible as "animals" who had "nothing to do with Islam".

A palpable sense of security is returning to Pakistan as a crackdown on militancy bears fruit, but critics warn the government has not taken long-term steps to tackle the underlying scourge of extremist Islam.