Inspector general of KPK police press conference on suicide blast at mosque

Moazzam Jah Ansari (C), head of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province police force, speaks during a press conference at the Police Headquarters 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 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.