Detectives have blamed an affiliate of the Pakistani Taliban for the Monday blast in Peshawar which killed 84 people. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Pakistan has witnessed a dramatic uptick in attacks in regions bordering Afghanistan, where militants use rugged terrain to stage assaults and escape detection.
Special assistant to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Mr Faisal Karim Kundi, said delegations would be sent to Teheran and Kabul to “ask them to ensure that their soil is not used by terrorists against Pakistan”. But since the ultra-conservatives seized Kabul in 2021, relations with Pakistan have soured, in part over the resurgence of the Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan .
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