An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 struck Pakistan and northeastern Afghanistan on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, sending tremors that were felt in India.
The quake was 196 km deep and centred 82 km southeast of Feyzabad in a remote area of Afghanistan in the Hindu Kush mountain range.A state of emergency has been declared in hospitals across Peshawar, our correspondent Umer Farooq reports.