Police secure area of suicide bomb blast at a mosque that killed 100 people

Police secure the area at a mosque that was destroyed in a suicide bomb blast on 30 January, in Peshawar, Pakistan, 01 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 which killed at least 100 people - most of them police officers - as part of a steadily 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.