It is a very unfortunate incident. I can confirm that 40 people have died in the bomb blast.

naturally an act of terrorism.

Security of places of minority worship across Pakistan has been intensified and extra police deployed to protect them,

A number of villages in Kashmir were wiped out ... We are facing difficulties in reaching those areas as most of the roads there are either blocked or wiped out by the landslides,

We'll do our best to keep the students with us and prefer arrest to giving the foreigners to police. There is no deadline for it.

Right now people are angry. They are wailing and crying. Some of them have blocked roads in the town and we are trying to control the situation.