Peshwar School Attack

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.