A Taliban source said 33 had been killed, including many female students. Many of those living in the area where the blast occurred are Hazara, an ethnic mostly Shiite Muslim minority.
The explosion went off during the weekly Friday prayer service at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast.
Taliban leader Mohammed Abbas Stanekzai, an IMA Dehradun graduate, has reached out to New Delhi. But the question is, can his possible links with Pakistan's ISI be ignored?
It's common practice now for most Indian media houses to not do stories datelined from other countries, partly due to financial constraints but also because of domestic upheavals.
The attacks undercut Biden's repeated arguments since taking office that he would offer a steady hand on foreign policy. And they have given his political enemies a powerful cudgel.
Biden said the attacks were carried out by ISIS-K and informed that he has ordered his commanders to develop operational plans to strike the group's assets, leadership and facilities.
ISIS claimed responsibility for bombing a wedding reception in Kabul last week. Tracking the rise of ISIS in Afghanistan and its objectives in the conflict-ridden country.
The BJP’s Kathua MLA Rajiv Jasrotia, one of those who supported the accused in the January rape and murder of an eight-year-old, was inducted into the Jammu & Kashmir cabinet Monday.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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