epa10444080 Pakistani security
officials attend a funeral ceremonyl of police official Zeeshan
Akbar, who was killed in a suicide bomb blast at a Mosque in
Police Lines, in Peshawar, Pakistan, 02 February 2023. The
Pakistani government is evaluating the possibility of launching
a large-scale operation against the local Taliban offshoot in
response to the brutal bombing at a mosque in Peshawar on 30
January, which killed at least 84 people, most of them police
officers, as part of a steady deteriorating security landscape
in the country with terrorism on the rise. Defense Minister
Khawaja Asif had urged all parties in the National Assembly to
unite against terrorism and launch an operation against the
Taliban similar to a 2014 offensive. EPA/ARSHAD ARBAB
ARSHAD ARBAB/
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