BBC News | Pakistani military chief signs death warrants for six 'hard-core' terrorists Washington Post ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Just two days after a school massacre that stunned the nation, Pakistani leaders on Thursday moved to expedite the executions of prisoners convicted of taking part in major terrorist attacks. Gen. Raheel Sharif, head of the ... Mumbai attacks 'mastermind' Lakhvi bailed in Pakistan Key Suspect in 2008 Mumbai Attacks Granted Bail Lakhvi's release shows no change in Pakistan even after Peshawar carnage ... |
The Economist | Massacre in Pakistan The Economist IT TAKES something unusually vile for the world to pay much attention to a terrorist outrage in Pakistan. Since 2007 the annual toll of murders by jihadists has never dropped below 2,000 and in 2012 and 2013 it was not far off 4,000. This year has ... Pakistan's ties to militant groups complicate its terrorism fight Peshawar school massacre: Pakistan's watershed Taliban moment? Pakistan Begins 3 Days of Mourning After Peshawar Massacre |
Bloomberg | After School Massacre, How Will Pakistan Respond to the Taliban? 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. |
New York Times | Horror Paralyzes Pakistan After a Methodical Slaughter New York Times PESHAWAR, Pakistan — As Pakistani Taliban gunmen strode through the corridors and classrooms of the Army Public School on Tuesday, spraying teachers and pupils with bullets, one paused from his grisly work to make a phone call. “We have killed all of ... |
BBC News | Pakistan school attack: Pupil back in bloodied uniform BBC News Prayer vigils are being held nationwide, with Pakistani embassies across the world lowering their flags to half-mast and opening books of condolences. The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil spoke to attack survivor Aqif Azeem - one of several pupils who have ... |
BBC News | In pictures: Pakistan school attack aftermath BBC News More than 140 people, most of them children, were killed when Taliban gunmen stormed a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, officials say. Pakistani mourners carry the coffin of a victim of an attack on an army-run Funerals for the victims of the Peshawar ... |
TIME | School Massacre Unites Pakistan Against the Taliban TIME As the 141 children and teachers who were killed in Pakistan's deadliest terrorist attack at a school in Peshawar were buried by their bereft parents and relatives on Wednesday, the deep sadness and grief that has affected everyone in Pakistan gave way ... |
Pakistan school attack: Bloodstains, bullet holes mark Peshawar classrooms CNN Peshawar, Pakistan (CNN) -- The high brick wall outside the Army Public School and Degree College in Peshawar gives the first clue into the horror that unfolded inside its classrooms. A section of barbed wire has been cut at the top, allowing some of ... |
Pakistan's 9/11 CNN (CNN) -- The slaughter of more than 130 children at a school by the Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday may prove as pivotal to Pakistan's national security policy as the 9/11 attacks were for the United States. For decades since its founding in 1947 ... |
TIME | Taliban Attack in Pakistan Prompts Cross-Border Solidarity From India TIME INDIA-PAKISTAN-UNREST-ATTACKS Schoolchildren pray during morning assembly at their school in Shimla, India, on Dec. 17, 2014, as they pay tribute to slain students and staff after an attack on an army school in Peshawar, Pakistan STRDEL—AFP/Getty ... |