PM Modi speaks to Sharif, says India stands firmly with Pak in the fight against terrorism
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi tonight spoke to his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif offering his "deepest condolences" on the dastardly terror attack at a school in Peshawar and said India stands firmly with his country in the fight against terrorism.
Giving details of his conversation with Sharif in his Twitter account, Modi appealed to all schools across India to observe two-minute silence tomorrow "as a mark of solidarity."
India stands firmly with Pakistan in fight against terror. Told PM Sharif we are ready to provide all assistance during this hour of grief.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 16, 2014Read | Peshawar school terror attack: The horror unfolds
Spoke to PM Nawaz Sharif over the telephone. Offered my deepest condolences on the dastardly terror attack in Peshawar.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 16, 2014Read: 'My son was in uniform. Now he is in a casket': A father's agony
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.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 16, 2014As many as 141 people, nearly all of them school children, were massacred today when heavily-armed Taliban suicide bombers stormed a Pakistan army-run school in Peshawar firing indiscriminately, leaving another 130 injured.
Read | 'I saw death so close': student recalls Pakistan school carnage
Modi told Sharif that "this terrible tragedy has shaken the conscience of the world" and "that this moment of shared pain and mourning is also a call for our two countries and all those who believe in humanity to join hands to decisively and comprehensively defeat terrorism so that the children in Pakistan, India and elsewhere do not have to face a future darkened by the lengthening shadow of terrorism."
Watch: Eyewitness of Peshawar school attack
