Suicide bombing at Pakistan mosque kills at least 21, including child

On a Friday afternoon in Kohat, Pakistan, when worshippers had gathered in a mosque inside a police compound for midday prayers, a car laden with explosives tore through the entrance and detonated, killing at least 21 people — among them 15 officers and a four-year-old child. The Pakistani Taliban, a militant force that has long sought to remake the country through violence, is believed responsible. The attack is not an isolated rupture but a deepening groove in a pattern of escalating bloodshed along Pakistan's border regions, where the sacred and the political collide with devastating regula