The blast occurred near an Imambargah in the congested Kucha Risaldar area of the walled part of Peshawar.
Rediff.com digs into Parliamentary archives to gauge how the government has responded on the issue.
'One of R&AW's greatest achievements is in projecting itself as benign.' 'This work -- done in tandem with the Diaspora and the MEA -- sells a story of India as mostly the victim.'
Lashker-e-Tayiba operative Abdul Karim Tunda, who is admitted at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, underwent a surgery to implant a pacemaker in his heart on Saturday.
The Delhi Police have finally managed to get their man -- Abdul Karim Tunda, the answer to several questions regarding the Lashkar-e-Tayiba network in India.
Lashing out at those who sought leniency for Yakub Memon, the Shiv Sena on Friday demanded they should be "tried for being enemies of the country" and also asked the government to ensure that the 1993 serial blasts convict does not become a martyr in the eyes of people.
A top Taliban commander was among the five people killed on Friday in a powerful blast in a market in Pakistan's restive South Waziristan tribal region.
At least five people, including some football players were killed and 11 injured on Sunday in a bomb attack in Pakistan's restive north western tribal region during a match, officials said.
At least 54 people, including 11 women and security personnel, were killed and about 200 others injured in a powerful suicide blast in Pakistan at Wagah on Sunday, minutes after the popular flag-lowering ceremony at the Indo-Pak border.
The 26/11 handler has demanded to be shifted from 'anda' cell to a normal prison.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the restoration of statehood and democratic process is a very important step in Jammu and Kashmir as he avoided a question on whether his party would be part of an Opposition alliance in the Union Territory.
At least four people have been killed and eight others injured in two separate explosions in Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi, officials said.
Kunal Kohli's Lahore Confidential isn't a patch on his Fanaa, asserts Moumita Bhattacharjee.
The Election Commission sent a notice to Mangal Prabhat Lodha, the BJP's Mumbai chief. This is probably because a leading newspaper highlighted his utterances on its front page.
In this lockdown, no matter how many similarities the memory dredges up from past events and associations, there is one thing that has no precedent: The isolation that it has imposed on people, reports Arundhuti Dasgupta.
The heart and stomach were missing as they had been taken out during the first autopsy conducted at Jinnah Hospital in Lahore.
The bomb was planted along the side of the road and exploded as the Anti-Terrorism Force vehicle passed by.
Twenty-six people were killed when a bomb went off in the parking lot of the Federal Investigation Agency office, while four people, including two children, were killed in a separate blast in Lahore's Model Town residential area.Hours later, unidentified gunmen opened fire at a passenger train here, killing four persons and injuring three others, police said.
Pakistan's Defence spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad said that several casualties occurred when bombs being made by militants accidentally exploded.
Acting on reports of the Intelligence Bureau about his movement, Delhi police had been hot on Tehsin's trail for a few weeks, says Vicky Nanjappa
Nine persons were killed and several others injured when a police van transporting prisoners was targeted in a roadside bomb attack in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province on Thursday.The van, which was taking prisoners from a jail to court, was attacked near a bridge in the Bannu area of NWFP, police officials told TV channels. Most of the dead were believed to be policemen who were escorting the prisoners.
Security officials on Wednesday revealed that suspected operative of Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence Mohammed Zaheed Hussain, who was arrested days before the twin blasts in Chennai, was part of a larger mission to target critical national assets and some foreign establishments.
An official statement said the blast caused no casualties or damage to property.
The spokesman even taunted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Twitter. "After the Lahore attack, Nawaz Sharif repeated old words to give himself false assurances," he wrote.
The Pakistan army on Monday launched an all-out offensive using jets and tanks in the restive North Waziristan, killing nearly 184 Taliban fighters including foreigners, while six soldiers were killed in an IED blast, the first military casualties in the operation.
Villagers at the forefront of Pakistani firing say they feel like being in a war zone amid sounds of falling mortar bombs and rattle of automatic weapons and have appealed to the government to ask the neighbouring country to end the tension.
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed three bills to replace the colonial-era criminal laws by voice vote.
The quantum of sentence for the convicted Indian Mujahideen operatives, Aneeq Shafique Sayeed and Mohammed Akbar Ismail, will be announced next Monday.
Militants in Pakistan's restive tribal areas carried out the two attacks apparently as a retaliation to the bloody Lal Masjid crackdown.
One can only imagine how it is at the receiving end of the bomb. The sound is deafening, splinters and rocks fly like missiles and the blast sucks in the air around asphyxiating everyone. The shock waves can be felt for miles around.
From enjoying beer sessions with Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray on the terrace of his Matoshree residence to going on vacations with Nationalist Conress Party chief Sharad Pawar and his family, the late thespian Dilip Kumar enjoyed warm relations with leaders belonging to different political hues, even though the ties strained later.
Military spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad said the first suicide attack occurred at a checkpoint outside the Pakistan Army's general headquarters while the second was carried out on a bus carrying defence personnel.
One accused was acquitted by the court.
'India's policy makers need to pull their heads out of the sand and recognize the reality that Pakistan has supported and sponsored terrorism on Indian soil for more than three decades; a national counter-terrorism strategy must be evolved in the fullest consciousness of this fact, and of the continued hostility of the Pakistani nation-State to the very idea of India.'
Over 300 people were also injured in the attack and many of them were in a critical condition.
The children had found the device in farms near their school in Neelam Valley in PoK, news channels said.
A Pakistani policeman was killed and eight persons were injured while defusing two bombs planted outside a girls' school in the country's volatile northwest.
He blamed policies of the Congress-led governments for the Kashmir issue remaining unresolved.
Former Mumbai police commissioner M N Singh made startling revelations about SRK, Dawood Ibrahim's surrender plan and Sharad Pawar at a book launch in Mumbai.
'I reported to two people at the Pakistan High Commission in Colombo and informed them about my reconnaissance activities, which I carried out under the guise of being a footwear exporter. I photographed various sensitive locations, including nuclear stations and the US consulate in Chennai.' These comments made by alleged ISI spy Zaheed Hussain reveal how Pakistan is playing an active role in spreading terror in the country. Vicky Nanjappa presents an excerpt of his confession.
