Pakistan School Children Attacked

Pakistan's army on Thursday announced the death penalty for six terrorists linked to an assault on a school in Peshawar that killed 151 people, mainly school children, in the country's deadliest terror attack.

When Taliban militants stormed a school in Pakistan's northwest last December, killing 150 people, mainly children, in the country's deadliest terror attack, comic book creators Mustafa Hasnain and Gauhar Aftab decided it was time to act.

Pakistan is holding its first Republic Day parade in seven years on Monday, a symbolic show of strength in the war against Taliban insurgents three months after a militant attack on an army-run high school killed 132 children in Peshawar.

Captain Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi, Ahmed Shehzad, Yasir Shah, Mohammad Irfan, Ehsan Adil, Umar Akmal visited the school and then the hospital where the children, who were injured in the deadly attack, are under treatment.

US Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to Peshawar to meet survivors of the carnage by the Taliban that claimed 150 lives, mostly of school children, was cancelled today due to bad weather.

Children streamed back to school across Pakistan on Monday in an anxious start to a new term following last month's massacre of 134 students at an army-run school in the volatile northwestern city of Peshawar.

Pakistani children and their parents returned Monday to the school where Taliban gunmen killed 150 of their classmates and teachers, their green school blazers, Superman lunchboxes and hands clutched tightly to their parents a symbol of perseverance despite the horrors they had endured.

Pakistani lawmakers on Tuesday passed legislation for military courts to try insurgents, one of a raft of measures aimed at clamping down on increasingly brutal attacks after Taliban gunmen massacred 134 children last month.

Some Afghan nationals working in the canteen of the army-run school where 150 people, mostly school children, were massacred, have been arrested by Pakistan security agencies for allegedly facilitating the Taliban militants in carrying out the bloodbath.

Eleven militants carried out the brutal Taliban attack on an army-run school in Pakistan's Peshawar city last week that killed 150 people, mostly children, an initial investigation report has said.

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has announced that government educational institutions in the province would be named after the children killed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants in the barbaric attack December 16 on the Army Public School in Peshawar.

A madrasa in Pakistan's Punjab province has expelled two boys whose father is an accused in the case of bombings at Islamabad's Marriott Hotel and uncle has been arrested for alleged involvement in the Peshawar school attack. The attack at the army-run school last week left over 130 children dead.

The local branch Al-Qaeda in Pakistan's Peshawar said on Sunday its heart was "bursting with pain" over the Taliban's massacre at a Pakistan school and urged the militants to target only security forces.

After this week's Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar in Pakistan, the government has reissued detailed instructions to schools across the country on how to prepare against and react to any threat to children, including a terror attack where students could be taken hostage.

India has said it cannot accept the bail granted to 26/11 accused Lashkar-e-Taiba co-founder and commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, by a court in Pakistan. The court's order comes as Pakistan pledged to root out terror in the wake of the Taliban massacre at the Peshawar school in which over 130 children died. The prosecuting authorities in Pakistan s...

Pakistan's army on Thursday announced the death penalty for six terrorists linked to an assault on a school in Peshawar that killed 151 people, mainly school children, in the country's deadliest terror attack.

When Taliban militants stormed a school in Pakistan's northwest last December, killing 150 people, mainly children, in the country's deadliest terror attack, comic book creators Mustafa Hasnain and Gauhar Aftab decided it was time to act.

Pakistan is holding its first Republic Day parade in seven years on Monday, a symbolic show of strength in the war against Taliban insurgents three months after a militant attack on an army-run high school killed 132 children in Peshawar.

Captain Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi, Ahmed Shehzad, Yasir Shah, Mohammad Irfan, Ehsan Adil, Umar Akmal visited the school and then the hospital where the children, who were injured in the deadly attack, are under treatment.

US Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to Peshawar to meet survivors of the carnage by the Taliban that claimed 150 lives, mostly of school children, was cancelled today due to bad weather.

Children streamed back to school across Pakistan on Monday in an anxious start to a new term following last month's massacre of 134 students at an army-run school in the volatile northwestern city of Peshawar.

Pakistani children and their parents returned Monday to the school where Taliban gunmen killed 150 of their classmates and teachers, their green school blazers, Superman lunchboxes and hands clutched tightly to their parents a symbol of perseverance despite the horrors they had endured.

Pakistani lawmakers on Tuesday passed legislation for military courts to try insurgents, one of a raft of measures aimed at clamping down on increasingly brutal attacks after Taliban gunmen massacred 134 children last month.

Some Afghan nationals working in the canteen of the army-run school where 150 people, mostly school children, were massacred, have been arrested by Pakistan security agencies for allegedly facilitating the Taliban militants in carrying out the bloodbath.

Eleven militants carried out the brutal Taliban attack on an army-run school in Pakistan's Peshawar city last week that killed 150 people, mostly children, an initial investigation report has said.

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has announced that government educational institutions in the province would be named after the children killed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants in the barbaric attack December 16 on the Army Public School in Peshawar.

A madrasa in Pakistan's Punjab province has expelled two boys whose father is an accused in the case of bombings at Islamabad's Marriott Hotel and uncle has been arrested for alleged involvement in the Peshawar school attack. The attack at the army-run school last week left over 130 children dead.

The local branch Al-Qaeda in Pakistan's Peshawar said on Sunday its heart was "bursting with pain" over the Taliban's massacre at a Pakistan school and urged the militants to target only security forces.

After this week's Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar in Pakistan, the government has reissued detailed instructions to schools across the country on how to prepare against and react to any threat to children, including a terror attack where students could be taken hostage.

India has said it cannot accept the bail granted to 26/11 accused Lashkar-e-Taiba co-founder and commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, by a court in Pakistan. The court's order comes as Pakistan pledged to root out terror in the wake of the Taliban massacre at the Peshawar school in which over 130 children died. The prosecuting authorities in Pakistan s...