Two Sikh men were attacked in separate incidents in Pakistan's Peshawar within 48 hours. One of them died after he was shot dead and the other sustained bullet wounds in his leg.
The Peshawar mosque explosion has so far claimed 83 lives, while more than 50 people are still hospitalised. The suicide bomber appeared to have passed through several barricades to reach the mosque premises.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP has waged an insurgency in Pakistan over the past 15 years, fighting for stricter enforcement of Islamic laws in the country, the release of their members in government custody and a reduction of Pakistani military presence in the country’s former tribal regions.