Washington Post | Pakistan to pursue terrorists even outside its borders Washington Post KABUL — As the death toll rose to 148 from Tuesday's massacre at a military-funded high school, the crisis sent Pakistani leaders rushing to Kabul on Wednesday to make a rare request for Afghanistan's help in fighting Islamist terrorism on both sides ... Pakistan militants: Children's massacre was to avenge army strikes Pakistan Begins 3 Days of Mourning After Peshawar Massacre Massacre in Pakistan |
Pakistani School Killers Want to Strike the U.S. Daily Beast One young TTP jihadi, who calls himself Jamal Mujahid, told The Daily Beast that he left the Waziristan regions of Pakistan after the Pakistani military started its most recent military operations there. He moved to Afghanistan and then back to ... |
CNN | Who are the Pakistani Taliban? The Taliban in Pakistan's terror legacy CNN (CNN) -- While its recent attack on a military school in Peshawar, Pakistan brought international outrage, the Pakistani Taliban has long taken credit for an extensive list of assaults on civilians and the military in the country's largely-ungoverned ... |
Pakistan school massacre prompts prime minister to lift death penalty ban The Guardian Pakistan's prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, has ordered a moratorium on the death penalty to be lifted for terror-related cases as families in Peshawar bury the 141 victims of the Taliban school attack. With the country beginning three days of mourning ... |
Fox News | Pakistan mourns deaths of 148 killed in Taliban attack Fox News PESHAWAR, Pakistan – The Taliban massacre that killed 148 people, mostly children, at a military-run school in northwestern Pakistan left a scene of heart-wrenching devastation, pools of blood and young lives snuffed out as the nation mourned and mass ... |
NBCNews.com | Peshawar School Attack: Pakistan Lifts Moratorium on Death Penalty NBCNews.com PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan was plunged into mourning Tuesday after Taliban militants in suicide vests laid siege to a school, massacring 132 children and 10 teachers during eight hours of sheer terror. In total, 145 people were killed, including ... |
Bloomberg | How Pakistan's Great Game in Afghanistan Gets Kids Killed at Home Bloomberg After almost 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush told world leaders that they either supported terrorism or opposed it. Pakistan, a country riven by competing impulses in a violent corner of the globe, does both. |
The Taliban's Massacre of Innocents in Pakistan New York Times With the slaughter of at least 145 schoolchildren and teachers at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday, the Taliban took its grisly war against the state to a more horrific place. The massacre by the Pakistani Taliban, which has carried out ... |
Aljazeera.com | Pakistan lifts death penalty moratorium Aljazeera.com Islamabad, PAKISTAN – In the aftermath of the deadliest attack on a civilian target in its history, Pakistan has lifted a moratorium on executions in terrorism-related cases, the Prime Minister's office has announced in a statement. "The Prime Minister ... |
Pakistan In Shock After School Attack That Killed More Than 100 Huffington Post In one of the worst terrorist attacks in Pakistan's history, militants belonging to the Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday launched a brazen attack on a military-run school in the city of Peshawar. Officials said the eight-hour siege left at least 141 people ... |