Women are pictured in a file photo praying near a statue of Mary and the Christ Child at St Michael's Church in Peshawar, Pakistan. Photo: OSV News/Martin Lueders. Pakistani security forces ended a standoff with militants holed up inside a police compound in the northwestern part of the country on Saturday. The standoff began Friday after a suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into the complex in Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the country’s border with Afghanistan. Gunmen followed the vehicle,…
