Peshawar School Attack
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Over 100 schools in Peshawar renamed after attack victims
World | Mar 05, 2015, 11:34 PM ISTPeshawar: Over 100 schools in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province were today renamed after the students massacred by the Taliban here last year.The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa renamed 107 schools after the name of
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Militants storm Shiite mosque in Pakistan's Peshawar
World | Feb 13, 2015, 06:05 PM IST20 dead, over 50 injuredPeshawar: At least 20 people were killed and over 50 injured when Kalashnikov-wielding Taliban suicide bombers stormed a crowded minority Shia mosque in Pakistan's restive northwest during Friday prayers, opening fire
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Peshawar school attack: Most attackers killed or arrested, says Pakistan
World | Feb 13, 2015, 07:38 AM ISTIslamabad: Most of the terrorists, who were involved in the brutal attack on an army school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar in December last year have either been killed or arrested, the Pakistani army
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Terrorism needs to be tackled globally: Pranab Mukherjee
India | Feb 08, 2015, 05:29 PM ISTNew Delhi: India is one of the oldest victims of terrorism and the international community must assert itself to tackle the scourge, President Pranab Mukherjee said Sunday."We have in recent days witnessed the horrific killings
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See reason, shun violence: School students from India, Pakistan
India | Jan 06, 2015, 10:35 AM ISTNew Delhi: The year-end barbaric massacre of nearly 140 defenceless, innocent children at an army-run school in Peshawar by terror outfit Tehrik-e-Taliban has not only failed to deter Pakistani children from their quest of knowledge
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Pak airstrikes kill 23 militants in North Waziristan
World | Dec 27, 2014, 07:51 AM ISTPeshawar: At least 23 militants were killed when Pakistani fighter jets today pounded terrorist hideouts in the restive North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border.Military fighter jets targeted militant hideouts in Dattakhel area, killing
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Nawaz Sharif vows to target all terror groups
World | Dec 21, 2014, 09:11 PM ISTIslamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today vowed to target all terror groups irrespective of their agenda and affiliation, in the wake of the Peshawar school massacre that left 148 people dead, mostly students.He made
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Terrorist don't deserve any concession: Pak President
World | Dec 21, 2014, 08:22 AM ISTIslamabad: Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain yesterday said the terrorists have crossed all limits and don't deserve any leniency, days after a deadly Taliban terror attack in Peshawar killed 148 people, mostly children.Hussain said the entire
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TTP chief Mullah Fazlullah killed in air strike?
World | Dec 20, 2014, 11:17 AM ISTNew Delhi: Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief, Mullah Fazlullah, was killed in air strikes by the PAF in Afghanistan, Pakistan's Ministry of Defence claimed in a series of Facebook post late on Friday night. However, there
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Pakistan should reciprocate India's mature response to Peshawar incident: Parrikar
National | Dec 18, 2014, 11:52 PM ISTNew Delhi: Defence Minister Manaohar Parrikar today said Pakistan should reciprocate the sense of maturity India has shown following the attack in Peshawar on a school.“We have shown our maturity and solidarity to the carnage
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Satyarthi appeals to terrorist groups to spare children
India | Dec 18, 2014, 11:32 PM ISTNew Delhi: Terming the militant attack on a Peshawar school as an “act of sin”, Nobel Peace prize winner Kailash Satyarthi today appealed to the terrorist groups to spare children and asked the global community
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Bassi urges Delhiites not to pay heed to rumours
India | Dec 18, 2014, 08:59 PM ISTNew Delhi: Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi today urged Delhiites not to pay heed to rumours floating on WhatsApp and other social media while assuring them that the force is alert to avert any
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Govt taking steps for security ahead of Obama's visit: Rajnath
National | Dec 18, 2014, 08:37 PM ISTNew Delhi: In the wake of terror attack in Peshawar, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said the government is taking all possible steps for security during the ensuing visit of US President Barack Obama.“Whatever high
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Pakistan continues to sponsor terror groups against India: Govt
India | Dec 18, 2014, 06:44 PM ISTNew Delhi: Pakistan continues to sponsor terror groups and hostile propaganda against India, and necessary steps would be taken to safeguard the country's interests, the government told the Rajya Sabha today. India has reiterated to
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Why Pakistan needs to stop flirting with terrorists
National | Dec 18, 2014, 11:48 PM ISTOn Nov 17, Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan PM's adviser on national security, in an interview to BBC had said that there is no need for Pakistan to take action against all militant groups because some of
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Peshawar attack planned by 16 Taliban militants in Afghanistan
World | Dec 18, 2014, 05:09 PM ISTIslamabad: Sixteen top Taliban militants, including Mullah Fazlullah, planned the deadly Peshawar school massacre during a meeting held in Afghanistan in early December, Pakistani officials said today.The attack on Tuesday killed 148 people, including 132
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26/11 Mumbai attack accused Lakhvi granted bail by Pakistan court
World | Dec 18, 2014, 03:58 PM ISTIslamabad: LeT operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, one the seven Pakistani nationals accused of planning and abetting the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, was granted bail today by the Anti-Terrorism Court.Lakhvi and six others had filed
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Cruelty against children is crime against humanity: Satyarthi
India | Dec 17, 2014, 11:31 PM ISTBhopal: Nobel Laureate and Bachpan Bachao Andolan activist Kailash Satyarthi today said cruelty against children and depriving them of education, freedom, security and dreams was a heinous crime against humanity. The Nobel Peace Prize winner,
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Boy oversleeps, escapes Pakistan school attack but scarred for life
World | Dec 17, 2014, 10:51 PM ISTPeshawar: A faulty alarm clock has saved the life of a 15-year-old boy who failed to wake up in time for school, becoming the only student in class IX of the army-run school where Taliban
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Imran ends protest in Pakistan capital after Peshawar attack
World | Dec 17, 2014, 10:30 PM ISTIslamabad: Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan today called off his over four-month protest in the capital against alleged rigging in last year's polls saying he wanted to help the government focus on the fight against