Our priority is to open the roads and remove the dead and the injured.

Naturally an act of terrorism.

It may still go up. It is a colossal tragedy.

With the severe winter approaching in a few weeks, we are racing against time to save people and have asked them to come down from the highlands.

It is such a horrendous situation that one cannot imagine, ... Casualties are increasing by the hour.

At this moment we are asking the international community to come to Pakistan's help in the wake of the earthquake and this blast will send a wrong signal outside.

There are at least 40 dead.