Bombing at Pakistan mosque kills at least 31 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

In the city of Kohat, nestled in Pakistan's restless northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a bomb tore through a mosque on September 19, killing at least 31 people in what appears to have been a coordinated assault combining explosives and gunfire. The mosque stood near a police compound, a proximity that may have made it a deliberate target in a region where the line between sacred space and contested ground has long been dangerously thin. This attack is not an isolated rupture but another wound in a decades-long struggle between the Pakistani state and militant groups who have made th