The Afghan Taliban have condemned a raid on a school in neighboring Pakistan that left 141 dead in the country's bloodiest ever terror attack, saying killing innocent children was against Islam.

Survivors said militants gunned down children as young as 12 during the eight-hour onslaught in the northwestern city of Peshawar, which the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) said was revenge for a major military offensive in the region.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly condemned a "cowardly" attack by Taliban militants Tuesday on an army-run school in neighboring Pakistan that killed at least 130 people -- most of them children.

Modi branded the attack in the northwestern city of Peshawar "a senseless act of unspeakable brutality" and said India shares rival Pakistan's pain.

A bomb planted on a motorbike killed a soldier and wounded another in Pakistan's restive northwest on Friday, officials said.

The incident happened in Mithra area on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a peace committee meeting in a restive Pakistani tribal area on Wednesday, killing at least five people and wounding seven others, officials said.

The bombing took place in Pir Mela village of the restive Khyber tribal district, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of Peshawar.

At least five people were killed and two others wounded Friday following two attacks in the restive northwestern city of Peshawar that targeted police personnel, officials said.

Three officers and a civilian were killed when gunmen opened fire on their van as they dined at a restaurant. 

Pakistani helicopter gunships pounded militant targets in the country's northwest Saturday, killing up to 30 rebels, as the number of civilians fleeing an expected ground offensive passed 200,000.

The military said 30 insurgents were killed in targeted air strikes early Saturday in Khyber and North Waziristan Agencies, semi-autonomous tribal regions on the Afghan border which are an important base for the Pakistani Taliban.

A suicide bomb attack at the residence of an anti-Taliban peace militia in the restive northwestern city of Peshawar left one dead and five others injured late Thursday, police said.

The incident took place in the Matan Adezai area of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa city and targeted the leader of an anti-insurgent group, senior police official Najeeb U Rehman told Agence France Presse.

Unknown gunmen shot dead a popular female singer in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar in the latest attack against women artists, officials said Thursday.

Gulnar, 38, famous under her performing name Muskan, was shot by four gunmen who barged into her house on Wednesday. She died in hospital.

At least three soldiers were killed and another two wounded in a roadside bomb blast in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, officials said. 

The incident took place near Miranshah, the capital of North Waziristan, one of the most violent tribal districts that houses Pakistani Taliban and the Haqqani network. 

Gunmen on Tuesday killed two schoolteachers -- one Sunni Muslim, one Shiite -- in a northwestern Pakistani town with a history of sectarian violence, police said.

The double murder came in the Sunni-dominated town of Hangu, around 60 kilometres (40 miles) southwest of Peshawar, the main city of the northwest, as the teachers were going to the government high school where they worked.