Pakistan Investigates Suicide Bombing That Killed 12: AP
Forenstics officers at the site of a car bomb explosion outside a district court in Islamabad, on Nov. 11.
Photographer: Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty ImagesISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister on Wednesday offered talks to Afghanistan’s Taliban government in a renewed peace overture, about a week after negotiations between the two sides collapsed in Istanbul, raising fears that a ceasefire brokered by Qatar and Turkey could unravel and trigger new border clashes.
Shehbaz Sharif made the offer in a televised speech to parliament, a day after a deadly suicide bombing outside a court in Islamabad killed 12 people and wounded 27 others.