Peshawar Attack

A senior Pakistani police official in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where Monday's blast took place told AFP the Kabul delegation would hold "talks with the top brass".

Pakistani authorities on Friday claimed to have made an "important breakthrough" in its probe into the Peshawar mosque attack by identifying the suicide bomber through his DNA samples, Press Trust of India reported.

The Taliban has slammed the Pakistan Government for blaming Afghanistan for the Peshawar mosque blast.

The suicide bomber who killed 101 people inside a mosque at a police headquarters in Pakistan was wearing a uniform and helmet when he staged the attack, a police chief said Thursday.

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.

Speaking on the deadly suicide bombing inside a mosque in Peshawar on Tuesday, Pakistan Defence Minister Khwaja Asif said worshippers were not killed during prayers even in India, the Dawn reported.

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

The suicide bomber was in the front row when blew himself up, causing the roof of the mosque to collapse on the worshippers offering the Zuhr (afternoon) prayers.

The attack happened Monday during afternoon worship in the provincial capital of Peshawar, close to areas along the Afghan border where militancy has been steadily rising.

The attack happened during afternoon worship in the provincial capital of Peshawar, close to former tribal areas that border Afghanistan.

A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque packed with worshippers during afternoon prayers on Monday in the high-security zone in Pakistan's restive northwestern Peshawar city, killing at least 61 people and wounding more than 150 others.

A blast at a mosque inside a police headquarters in Pakistan on Monday killed 25 people and wounded another 120, hospital officials said.

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.

The Islamic State group claimed a suicide bombing that hit a Shiite mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least 56 people.

The death count from a suicide attack Friday on a Shiite mosque in the northwest Pakistan city of Peshawar has climbed to 56 with 194 wounded, a hospital official said.

A senior Pakistani police official in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where Monday's blast took place told AFP the Kabul delegation would hold "talks with the top brass".

Pakistani authorities on Friday claimed to have made an "important breakthrough" in its probe into the Peshawar mosque attack by identifying the suicide bomber through his DNA samples, Press Trust of India reported.

The Taliban has slammed the Pakistan Government for blaming Afghanistan for the Peshawar mosque blast.

The suicide bomber who killed 101 people inside a mosque at a police headquarters in Pakistan was wearing a uniform and helmet when he staged the attack, a police chief said Thursday.

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.

Speaking on the deadly suicide bombing inside a mosque in Peshawar on Tuesday, Pakistan Defence Minister Khwaja Asif said worshippers were not killed during prayers even in India, the Dawn reported.

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

The suicide bomber was in the front row when blew himself up, causing the roof of the mosque to collapse on the worshippers offering the Zuhr (afternoon) prayers.

The attack happened Monday during afternoon worship in the provincial capital of Peshawar, close to areas along the Afghan border where militancy has been steadily rising.

The attack happened during afternoon worship in the provincial capital of Peshawar, close to former tribal areas that border Afghanistan.

A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque packed with worshippers during afternoon prayers on Monday in the high-security zone in Pakistan's restive northwestern Peshawar city, killing at least 61 people and wounding more than 150 others.

A blast at a mosque inside a police headquarters in Pakistan on Monday killed 25 people and wounded another 120, hospital officials said.

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.

The Islamic State group claimed a suicide bombing that hit a Shiite mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least 56 people.

The death count from a suicide attack Friday on a Shiite mosque in the northwest Pakistan city of Peshawar has climbed to 56 with 194 wounded, a hospital official said.