At least 78 dead after Pakistan bomb attack.

 A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a 130-year-old church in Pakistan after Sunday Mass killing at least 78 people.
This is the deadliest attack on Christians in the predominantly Muslim South Asian country.
Violence has been on the rise in Pakistan in past months,undermining Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's efforts to tame the insurgency by launching peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban.
An assault of this scale is certain to give ammunition to Sharif's critics who are against his peace initiative and believe militants have to be tackled by tough military action.
Explosions struck the historic white-stone All Saints Church in the city of Peshawar as hundreds of parishioners, many of them women and children, streamed out of the building.
Her voice breaking with emotion, she said she had not seen her sister since the explosions ripped through the gate area outside the Anglican church.

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said the death toll of 78 included 34 women and seven children, in remarks televised live from Peshawar.
More than 100 were injured.
The Taliban-linked militant group TTP Jundullah claimed responsibility within hours of the attack. Christians make up about 4% of Pakistan's population of 180m.
They tend to keep a low profile in a country where Sunni Muslim militants frequently bomb targets they see as heretical, including Christians, Sufis and Shias.
Today's attacks could complicate efforts by Sharif to engage militants in meaningful peace negotiations at a time when roadside bombs, targeted killings and suicide attacks continue unabated.
Attacks on Christian areas occur sporadically around the country but today's assault, in a densely populated Christian residential area in the old walled city in Peshawar, was the most violent in recent history.
In 2009, 40 houses and a church were set ablaze by a mob of 1,000 Muslims in the town of Gojra in Punjab province.
At least seven Christians were burnt to death. Seventeen Christians were killed in an attack on a church in Bahawalpur in 2001.
Some residents, enraged at the lack of adequate security at the church, took to the streets immediately after the attack,burning tyres and shouting slogans.
Shops were closed in the Kohati Gate area where severalother churches are located.
Protests by Christians were also reported in other cities including the violent port city of Karachi and Multan.
A bomb disposal security source said there were two explosions carried out by a pair of attackers. More than 600 parishioners were inside the church for the service.
Pope Francis condemned the blast at a church in Pakistan that killed at least 78 people as an act of "hatred and war".
"Today, in Pakistan, because of a wrong choice, a decision of hatred, of war, there was an attack in which 70 people died."
He said: "This choice cannot stand. It serves nothing. Only the path of peace can build a better world."
The Pope said in unprepared remarks at the end of a one-day trip to the city of Cagliari on the Italian island of Sardinia