Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj cancels dinner for MPs in view of Pakistan school attack

NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's dinner for Members of Parliament tonight was cancelled in view of the terror attack on a school in Peshawar in which at least at least 160 people, mostly children, were killed.

"In view of the massacre of innocent children in Pakistan, tonight's dinner hosted by me for Members of Parliament is hereby cancelled," Swaraj tweeted.

In the bloodiest terror attack in Pakistan in years, nearly 160 people, including at least 124 children, were killed by heavily-armed Taliban suicide bombers who stormed the army-run school and took several hostages, a throwback to the 2004 Beslan school siege by Chechen rebels.

A group of eight Arabic-speaking attackers, wearing para- military Frontier Corps uniforms, entered the Army Public School on Warsak Road around 10.30 AM (local time) and started the massacre of innocents, spraying bullets indiscriminately, going from classroom-to-classroom.