Peshawar School Attack
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Pakistan ends death penalty moratorium in terror cases
World | Dec 17, 2014, 10:14 PM ISTPeshawar: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today lifted a self-imposed moratorium on death penalty in terror related cases, a day after ruthless Taliban militants massacred at least 132 students and 16 staffers at an army-run school
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16th December: The day when humanity was raped!
Life | Dec 17, 2014, 09:58 PM ISTFor all these years until 2012, all we knew about the significance of December 16 was that that India marked its military victory over Pakistan in 1971.Over the years, the day has been commemorated as
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Delhi police taking all steps to ensure security in city
India | Dec 17, 2014, 08:44 PM ISTNew Delhi: Delhi Police is taking all the necessary steps to ensure security in the national capital in the wake of the recent terror strikes in Peshawar and Sydney.Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi assured
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NSA Doval visits Pakistan High Commission, offers condolences
India | Dec 17, 2014, 10:09 PM ISTNew Delhi: National Security Adviser Ajit Doval today visited Pakistan High Commission here and offered condolences to the victims of the dastardly terror attack on Peshawar school that left 148 people including 132 children dead.He
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Peshawar attack: Schools across India observe 2-minute silence
India | Dec 17, 2014, 06:02 PM ISTNew Delhi/Srinagar: Schools across the country observed a two-minute silence today in a show of solidarity with Pakistan following an appeal from Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the dastardly terror attack on the Army Public
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Kerry calls Nawaz Sharif, expresses condolences on Peshawar attack
World | Dec 17, 2014, 05:26 PM ISTWashington: US Secretary of State John Kerry has called the Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to expresses "deepest condolences" on the horrific attack on a school in Peshawar that killed 141 people, majority of whom
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Seven Mumbai terror attacks accused file bail applications
World | Dec 17, 2014, 05:16 PM ISTIslamabad: Seven Pakistani nationals accused of planning and abetting the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks today filed bail applications in the anti-terrorism court here.The seven accused filed bail applications even as no proceedings of the case
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'Massacre of school children reflects inhuman state of mind'
National | Dec 17, 2014, 04:32 PM ISTNew Delhi: The massacre of school children in Peshawar reflects the “inhuman and depraved state of mind” of the Taliban, CPI(M) said today.Expressing shock and horror at the mass killings, the party Politburo denounced “this
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Nawaz Sharif vows to 'clean this region of terrorism'
World | Dec 17, 2014, 05:34 PM ISTPeshawar: Pakistan and Afghanistan have decided to launch fresh operations against terrorists in the wake of Peshawar school massacre by Taliban as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today vowed to “clean this region of terrorism.”“Our aim
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Union govt asks states to beef security after Peshawar school attack
National | Dec 17, 2014, 02:58 PM ISTNew Delhi: In the wake of the terror attack on a school in Pakistan's Peshawar, Centre today asked all states to beef up security particularly in educational institutions."An advisory has been issued to the state
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Pakistan united against terror: Nawaz Sharif
World | Dec 17, 2014, 02:23 PM ISTPeshawar: Pakistan is united in the fight against terror, said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday,All parties in Pakistan are united in fighting terrorism, Nawaz Sharif told the media, a day a Taliban attack rocked
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Terror incidents call for world to come together: Sushma Swaraj
National | Dec 17, 2014, 02:06 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Sydney cafe hostage crisis and the Peshawar school horror are a call to the world to stand up and counter terror together, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Wednesday said.Making a statement in
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Peshawar school attack: Most of victims shot in the head
World | Dec 17, 2014, 01:09 PM ISTIslamabad: Most of the victims of the terror attack at Peshawar's Army Public School were shot in head from point blank range by the militants, a media report said Wednesday."They scaled the boundary wall from
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Azad condemns terror attack on Pakistan school
National | Dec 16, 2014, 09:41 PM ISTJammu: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today condemned the terror attack in a school in Pakistan's Peshawar and said such act is not only against Pakistan but also against the world. The Leader of Opposition
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Govt to issue fresh guidelines for safety of schools
India | Dec 16, 2014, 09:32 PM ISTNew Delhi: In the wake of Peshawar school terror attack, the Centre will issue a fresh set of guidelines soon for the safety and security of all vulnerable places, especially prominent schools and academic institutions.The
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Killing of kids in Pakistan one of the darkest days of humanity: Satyarthi
India | Dec 16, 2014, 08:56 PM ISTNew Delhi: Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi today termed the killing of 124 students in a school in Pakistan's Peshawar by Taliban militants as “one of the darkest days of humanity” and offered himself to the
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Sushma Swaraj cancels dinner for MPs in view of Pak school attack
National | Dec 16, 2014, 08:19 PM ISTNew Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's dinner for Members of Parliament tonight was cancelled in view of the terror attack on a school in Peshawar in which at least at least 160 people, mostly
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Imran Khan condemns attack on army school in Pakistan
World | Dec 16, 2014, 06:04 PM ISTIslamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan on Tuesday condemned a deadly attack by Taliban militants on a military-run school in Peshawar that killed at least 126 people, mostly children."There is no justification for this," said