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The attack raised fears of a new wave of militancy from the Pakistani Taliban and sparked a heated debate over the government’s ability to meet that threat amid an economic and political crisis.
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Misguided government efforts to rehabilitate militants have helped fuel recent terrorist activityThe bomber struck shortly before afternoon prayers, when the mosque in Peshawar’s bustling Police Lines district would be at its busiest. Hundreds of peopl…
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The attack targeted a mosque frequented by police officers in a highly secured part of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
It was not clear how the bomber was able to slip into the walled compound, which houses the northwestern city of Peshawar’s police headquarters.
Around three dozen people have been killed and scores more wounded in an explosion at a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to officials.
The explosion came in a highly secured part of Peshawar, a provincial capital. It was the worst attack in the country in months.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, said a senior police official, but the Pakistani Taliban have been blamed in similar suicide attacks in the past.
At least 59 people dead and more than 150 wounded in suicide bombing that Pakistan Taliban says it is not responsible for, in contradiction of earlier admission At least 59 people have been killed and more than 150 injured in a suicide bombing carried …