New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday night spoke with his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif and offered his "deepest condolences" on the terror attack on an Army Public school in Peshawar and assured him that India stood firmly with the neighbouring country in the fight against terror. Modi has also appealed to all schools across India to observe a two-minute silence on Wednesday as a mark of solidarity to those killed in the dastardly attack.
About 150 people, 132 of them school children, were massacred on Tuesday when heavily-armed Taliban suicide bombers stormed a Pakistan Army-run school in Peshawar firing indiscriminately, leaving another 122 injured. "Spoke to PM Nawaz Sharif over the telephone. Offered my deepest condolences on the dastardly terror attack in Peshawar", said Modi in a post on Twitter.
Reaching out to Sharif, Modi said in a separate post, that "India stands firmly with Pakistan in fight against terror. Told PM Sharif we are ready to provide all assistance during this hour of grief".
"In the wake of dastardly attack in Pakistan, I appeal to schools across India to observe 2 mins of silence tomorrow as a mark of solidarity", Modi said in another tweet. In tweets earlier in the day, Modi strongly condemned the terror attack on the Peshawar school, calling it "cowardly" and "a senseless act of unspeakable brutality".
"My heart goes out to everyone who lost their loved ones today. We share their pain & offer our deepest condolences."
"Strongly condemn the cowardly terrorist attack at a school in Peshawar. It is a senseless act of unspeakable brutality that has claimed lives of the most innocent of human beings - young children in their school," Modi tweeted.
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