Peshwar Attack

A roadside bomb today killed six security personnel in Pakistan's restive northwestern tribal area bordering Afghanistan, authorities said.

The US today designated Maulana Fazlullah, the chief of the Pakistani Taliban, as a global terrorist and slapped sanctions against him.

Pope Francis on Monday denounced the religious fundamentalism that inspired the Paris massacres and ongoing Mideast conflicts, saying the attackers were enslaved by "deviant forms of religion" that used God as a mere ideological pretext to perpetuate mass killings.

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has issued death warrants against eight terror convicts, weeks after the government lifted a self-imposed moratorium on death penalty in terror related cases following the brazen Peshawar school attack.

A draft of amendments for trying enemy combatants and hardcore terrorists involved in execution, abetting, and financing mass murders was presented to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday.

A top Pakistani official has said the government has fast-tracked the execution of terrorists following reports that the convicts are in contact with their accomplices across the country and planning new attacks.

Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, the key planner of 2008 Mumbai attacks, today submitted an application with the Pakistan government seeking an end to his detention under a public security order slapped on him soon after being granted bail in the 26/11 case.

Goa Police have started a security drive across the state's schools in the wake of Tuesday's massacre of students in Pakistan's Peshawar city by terrorists.

Although it was savagery at its worst, the Tuesday attack on a school by militants is not the first time terrorists have targeted educational institutions in Pakistan.

Pakistan and New Zealand players observed a minute's silence to pay respect to the victims of a deadly Taliban attack in Peshwar that killed over 130 children.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday night to express sorrow over the brutal killing of 145 people, including 132 children, at a Peshawar school and said the attack was a call to join hands against terror.

Security has been beefed up at schools and colleges in the national capital in the wake of a brutal terror attack in an army-run school at Peshwar in Pakistan in which at least 160 people, mostly children were killed.

A leading anti-Taliban politician was among eight persons killed today when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a house in Peshawar city where leaders of the Awami National Party (ANP) were holding a meeting.

A roadside bomb today killed six security personnel in Pakistan's restive northwestern tribal area bordering Afghanistan, authorities said.

The US today designated Maulana Fazlullah, the chief of the Pakistani Taliban, as a global terrorist and slapped sanctions against him.

Pope Francis on Monday denounced the religious fundamentalism that inspired the Paris massacres and ongoing Mideast conflicts, saying the attackers were enslaved by "deviant forms of religion" that used God as a mere ideological pretext to perpetuate mass killings.

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has issued death warrants against eight terror convicts, weeks after the government lifted a self-imposed moratorium on death penalty in terror related cases following the brazen Peshawar school attack.

A draft of amendments for trying enemy combatants and hardcore terrorists involved in execution, abetting, and financing mass murders was presented to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday.

A top Pakistani official has said the government has fast-tracked the execution of terrorists following reports that the convicts are in contact with their accomplices across the country and planning new attacks.

Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, the key planner of 2008 Mumbai attacks, today submitted an application with the Pakistan government seeking an end to his detention under a public security order slapped on him soon after being granted bail in the 26/11 case.

Goa Police have started a security drive across the state's schools in the wake of Tuesday's massacre of students in Pakistan's Peshawar city by terrorists.

Although it was savagery at its worst, the Tuesday attack on a school by militants is not the first time terrorists have targeted educational institutions in Pakistan.

Pakistan and New Zealand players observed a minute's silence to pay respect to the victims of a deadly Taliban attack in Peshwar that killed over 130 children.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday night to express sorrow over the brutal killing of 145 people, including 132 children, at a Peshawar school and said the attack was a call to join hands against terror.

Security has been beefed up at schools and colleges in the national capital in the wake of a brutal terror attack in an army-run school at Peshwar in Pakistan in which at least 160 people, mostly children were killed.

A leading anti-Taliban politician was among eight persons killed today when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a house in Peshawar city where leaders of the Awami National Party (ANP) were holding a meeting.