A TTP spokesperson has denied any hand in the suicide bomb attack on a crowded mosque in Peshawar as tension mounts between Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders.
The bomber carried out the attack during afternoon prayers when the mosque was packed with worshipers and most of the victims were reportedly police officers from a nearby station.
The attack comes two days after a similar incident in country's northern Khyber district killed three police officers.
Terrorists attacked a police station in Peshawar, the capital of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan which has seen a rise in terror attacks launched by outlawed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in recent months.
Five soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb exploded in a remote area in the southwestern province of Balochistan, while the sixth was killed in a shootout with the Pakistani Taliban in Zhob district.
Police say the blast happened when its officers spotted a suspicious car and ordered the driver to halt for routine checking.
Authorities confirm no breakthrough in talks with militants who demand "safe passage" after they over a portion of a police station in northwest Pakistan.
Suspected militants stormed a police station in Lakki Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Afghan foreign ministry spokesman, Abdul Qahar Balkhi, condemned the attack, saying that the Taliban will not allow any "malicious actors to pose a threat to the security of diplomatic missions in Kabul".
Militants with automatic rifles attacked a police vehicle patrolling a village 100 kilometres from the Afghan border.
The resurgence of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in the mountains of Swat has brought back the spectre of terror amongst the region’s people.
Decision was made after "substantial progress" in the talks with the 50-member team of elders from Pakistan in the Afghan capital, says outlawed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.
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