Bollywood celebrities on December 16 termed the Taliban militants attack on an army-run school in Peshawar, Pakistan as "sickening" and "appalling".
The heavily-armed Taliban militants stormed the school in Pakistan's volatile northwestern city of Peshawar and killed over 100, mostly students when they started indiscriminate firing on them. (In Pics: Bollywood Reacts to Attack on Peshawar School)
This is sad. Real sad! Children:(
— Ali Zafar (@AliZafarsays) December 16, 2014Just reading about Peshawar never felt more helpless...my prayers with everyone in Peshawar all the children and parents...sad sad day
— Arjun Kapoor (@arjunk26) December 16, 2014what a senseless unspeakable act. the world is filled with monsters. #Peshawar #PakSchoolSiege #PeshawarAttack
— Sonam Kapoor (@sonamakapoor) December 16, 2014Watching tv n can't stop crying.Cant believe how religion can be used for such a horrid act of violence.No God says it's ok to kill!N kids?!
— PRIYANKA (@priyankachopra) December 16, 2014Oh god! Whats happening in this world. Times like these make you question humanity. Everyone please pray for whats happening in #Peshawar.
— Sonakshi Sinha (@sonakshisinha) December 16, 2014My heart has broken.. The world failed those children in Peshawar ... It's a sad sad day.
— Farhan Akhtar (@FarOutAkhtar) December 16, 2014104 innocent children are killed by Talibans In Peshawar . A black day for humanity .
— Javed Akhtar (@Javedakhtarjadu) December 16, 2014WHY? Why would anyone want to kill children? We humans should be destroyed one shot man. This world has gone so wrong. Sickening!
— Sandhya Mridul (@sandymridul) December 16, 2014I can't think of anything else 2day.I have ruined my shoot and my seething anger and helplessness is suffocating.#Peshawar I cry with you
— Ranganathan Madhavan (@ActorMadhavan) December 16, 2014is there an Allah or a God who will answer to the wails unmeasured grief of the parents whose children were massacred by the talibanis!!
— Raveena Tandon (@TandonRaveena) December 16, 2014Don't have the courage to put the news on ... Reading about the children of Peshawar is heart wrenching enough . No words at all ...
— Nimrat Kaur (@NimratOfficial) December 16, 2014