IRNA - At least six people including two women were injured in a powerful blast in Pakistans north western city of Peshawar on Saturday. As per initial reports, the explosive material was installed in a car which was parked near a mosque in Kalibari area of the city, police said. The car was completely destroyed in the explosion. Law enforcement ...

Press TV- The Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned an attack by Pakistani Taliban militants on a university in the northwestern city of Peshawar, stressing the importance of remaining vigilant and united in the face of measures by terrorist groups and their allies. "Terrorist groups carry out any inhuman and heinous measures only to achieve ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian foreign ministry strongly deplored the Friday terrorist attacks in Pakistan's Peshawar which killed 12 people. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi condemned the attacks, and extended his condolences to the Pakistani government and people on the death of their beloved ones. He underlined the necessity for campaign ...

[caption id="attachment_112518" align="alignright" width="218"] Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans Foreign Ministry strongly condemned a Friday terrorist attack on a Shiite mosque in Pakistans Peshawar that killed at least 19 people. Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said on ...

Pakistan has executed two more men over terrorism, bringing the number of executions to nine since the country lifted a moratorium on the death penalty. Ghulam Shabbir and Ahmed Ali (alias Sheesh Naag), who were reportedly members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants group, had been sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in 2002. Shabbir was convicted ...

Pakistan plans to execute as many as 500 people who have been convicted of terrorism in the coming weeks, following a recent order by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to lift the death penalty moratorium in the country; their appeals have been turned down by the president. MOSCOW, December 22 (Sputnik) Five hundred convicted terrorists are ...

[caption id="attachment_138308" align="alignright" width="219"] Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan[/caption] Pakistans Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has warned against more terrorist attacks by suspected Taliban militants across the militancy-riddled country. Khan told a press briefing in Islamabad that terrorists seem ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Pakistan executed two prominent Taliban militants in a clear response to the massacre of more than 130 children at a school in Peshawar. The hanged militants had no links to the Taliban's assault in the city of Peshawar on Tuesday, but their executions came at a time when a shocked Pakistani society is piling pressure on the government ...

Tehran, Dec 17, IRNA Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani in a message sent on Wednesday condoled with speakers of National Assembly and Senate of Pakistan on the sad event of massacre of a large number of pupils in Peshawar by medieval Taliban agents. In separate messages addressed to the Pakistani National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq ...

Tehran, Dec 18, IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a telephone conversation with Pakistan's Premier and National Security Advisor condemning the Peshawar terrorist act underlined that the enemies by such actions try to discredit Islam. Zarif in the telephone conversation with Sartaj Aziz on Wednesday afternoon condemned the Peshawar terrorist ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 19 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The massacre of schoolchildren at the hands of the Pakistani Taliban was the dominant front-page story in Iranian newspapers on Wednesday. A bloody day in Peshawar, ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani offered condolences to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the recent terrorist attack in the country which claimed lives of dozens innocent citizens. "The Islamic Republic of Iran expresses its readiness for cooperation with Pakistani government to fight extremism and terrorism," Rouhani said in ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Describing Peshawar school attack as national tragedy, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced three-day mourning across Pakistan. According to Samaa tv network, the PM has reiterated his commitment to carry on effort for a complete eradication of terrorism and militancy. Following the attack, which left over 125 children dead and ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans foreign ministry spokeswoman on Tuesday condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack on a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. This is a totally un-Islamic and inhumane action, Marziyeh Afkham said, adding that terrorism, extremism and putting innocent peoples lives at risk in any form and with any purpose are ...

The gunmen took hundreds of students and teachers hostage in the Peshawar school and started shooting at random. A Pakistani minister says 84 children were killed in a Taliban attack on a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar. The attack started with the Taliban storming the military school in Peshawar in the morning hours of Tuesday and ...

A Taliban attack on an army-run school in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday left at least five students dead and 36 people wounded, hospital and police sources said. Sharif Khan, a doctor at the Lady Reading Hospital in the city of Peshawar, where the attack is still under way, said they had received the bodies of five students. A senior police official ...

[caption id="attachment_85661" align="alignright" width="180"] Pakistani security personnel stand guard outside the Iranian consulate following the bomb attack in Peshawar on February on February 24, 2014.[/caption] A car bomb attack outside the Iranian consulate in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed at least twosoldiers and left ...