Tag: Massacre

India to reopen inquiry on historic Sikh massacre’s unsolved cases

NEW DELHI: India is to reopen nearly 200 unsolved cases associated with a frenzied massacre of Sikhs in 1984 that left nearly 3,000 dead, mainly...

President Sisi pledges forceful response after Egypt mosque massacre

CAIRO: Egypt´s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has vowed to respond forcefully after attackers killed at least 235 worshippers in a packed mosque in restive...

Texas church reopens as solemn memorial to shooting victims

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas: The modest Texas church where a gunman massacred more than two dozen worshipers last week reopened as a memorial on Sunday,...

US probes whether gunman in nightclub massacre had help

US authorities on Monday were investigating whether a gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando and declared his allegiance to...

Senate, NA lawmakers condemn May 12 massacre

Members of the lower and upper houses of parliament on Thursday condemned the May 12 massacre of political workers and lawyers on the arrival...

Taliban send message of impunity with Bacha Khan university massacre

As grieving Pakistani parents lament the government’s failure to keep their children safe, analysts say the Taliban have sent a message with their latest...

CTD arrests alleged financier of Safoora Goth massacre

  The Sindh Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday arrested the vice-chancellor of a private university from Karachi over charges of financing al Qaeda and...

Key suspect in Nanga Parbat massacre escapes police raid

A key suspect in the 2013 massacre of foreign climbers in Pakistan is on the run after he hurled grenades at officers who were...

Sindh CM says 4 Safoora massacre suspects arrested

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Tuesday said security authorities had apprehended masterminds of the Safoora Goth massacre, in which 45 people of the Ismaili community lost their lives.

‘Nigeria massacre deadliest in Boko Haram history’

Hundreds of bodies, too many to count, remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested Friday...

Al Qaeda condemns Peshawar school massacre

The al Qaeda subcontinent on Saturday denounced as un-Islamic the Taliban attack on an army-run school in Peshawar that left nearly 150 people dead,...

A city weeps sombrely

Citizens, political parties continue to hold candlelight vigils, protests against Peshawar massacre, demand punishment for terrorists in prison and outside As the city tries to...

Rage, tears and broken childhoods as Pakistan reels from massacre

Mehran Khan, a mild-mannered 14-year-old survivor of Tuesday's massacre, says he will not rest until the meaningless deaths of his classmates have been avenged. Shot...

After Peshawar school massacre, watch for the gloves to come off

With the massacre of more than 130 school children by Taliban gunmen, pressure has mounted on politicians and generals to act against the internal...

They killed our children…

Perturbed by our elders, the Taliban came for our children. They had no demands and wanted no hostage. In the name of the Most Merciful, they mercilessly killed 133 students and nine staffers at Army Public School, Warsak Road, Peshawar, also injuring several others, in one of Pakistan’s most deadly and tragic terrorist attacks in the country’s history.

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PAT chief says will launch movement for revolution ‘soon‘, will avenge killing of PAT workers PAT workers clash with police in Islamabad and Rawalpindi as...

At least 81 Iraqis killed in Sunni rebel attack on convoy

Iraqi Army commander in charge of Tal Afar flees ISIS offensive to semiautonomous region of Kurdistan