Taliban School Massacre

Two Pakistan-based terrorist groups with links to the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba and one of them blamed for the 2014 Peshawar school massacre were today designated as global terrorist outfits by the US.

Pakistan Army Retribution, an Android game based on the 2014 killings of school children at a Peshawar school by the Taliban has been removed from Google Play.

Pakistan today paid tributes to the victims of Peshawar's Army Public School attack on the first anniversary of the massacre.

Pakistan deployed paramilitary forces and police in major cities today as it marked the first anniversary of a Taliban school massacre that left 151 people dead, shocking a country already scarred by nearly a decade of attacks.

Pakistan today hanged four militants linked to a Taliban massacre at a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, the first time it has executed anyone convicted in the attack, which killed more than 150 people.

The survivors of Pakistan's deadliest ever terror massacre have expressed solidarity with the victims of the Paris attacks, describing those responsible as "animals" who had "nothing to do with Islam".

A US drone attack on a militant compound in a restive Pakistani tribal area on Tuesday killed at least five militants, security officials said.

A secret military court in Pakistan sentenced six men to death after convicting them of involvement in the Taliban massacre of 134 children at an army-run school in Peshawar, the military said on Thursday.

Pakistan has imposed a one month moratorium on executions during Ramadan, officials said today, providing temporary reprieve for a death row prisoner whose lawyers claim he was a juvenile at the time of the crime.

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.

Weeks after Taliban gunmen massacred 134 pupils at an army-run school, Pakistani lawmakers significantly expanded the power of military courts by allowing them to try civilians accused of terrorism.

Pakistan was 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.

Pakistani authorities today issued a death warrant for a killer condemned as a teenager, as a triple murderer was hanged in the 25th execution since the country resumed capital punishment in December.

The interior ministry has directed provincial governments to proceed with hangings for prisoners who had exhausted all avenues of appeal and clemency, a senior interior ministry official told AFP.

Pakistan is renaming dozens of government-run schools after the the students killed by Taliban militants in a massacre at an army-run academy in the northwestern city of Peshawar in December, an official said Friday.

Two Pakistan-based terrorist groups with links to the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba and one of them blamed for the 2014 Peshawar school massacre were today designated as global terrorist outfits by the US.

Pakistan Army Retribution, an Android game based on the 2014 killings of school children at a Peshawar school by the Taliban has been removed from Google Play.

Pakistan today paid tributes to the victims of Peshawar's Army Public School attack on the first anniversary of the massacre.

Pakistan deployed paramilitary forces and police in major cities today as it marked the first anniversary of a Taliban school massacre that left 151 people dead, shocking a country already scarred by nearly a decade of attacks.

Pakistan today hanged four militants linked to a Taliban massacre at a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, the first time it has executed anyone convicted in the attack, which killed more than 150 people.

The survivors of Pakistan's deadliest ever terror massacre have expressed solidarity with the victims of the Paris attacks, describing those responsible as "animals" who had "nothing to do with Islam".

A US drone attack on a militant compound in a restive Pakistani tribal area on Tuesday killed at least five militants, security officials said.

A secret military court in Pakistan sentenced six men to death after convicting them of involvement in the Taliban massacre of 134 children at an army-run school in Peshawar, the military said on Thursday.

Pakistan has imposed a one month moratorium on executions during Ramadan, officials said today, providing temporary reprieve for a death row prisoner whose lawyers claim he was a juvenile at the time of the crime.

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.

Weeks after Taliban gunmen massacred 134 pupils at an army-run school, Pakistani lawmakers significantly expanded the power of military courts by allowing them to try civilians accused of terrorism.

Pakistan was 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.

Pakistani authorities today issued a death warrant for a killer condemned as a teenager, as a triple murderer was hanged in the 25th execution since the country resumed capital punishment in December.

The interior ministry has directed provincial governments to proceed with hangings for prisoners who had exhausted all avenues of appeal and clemency, a senior interior ministry official told AFP.

Pakistan is renaming dozens of government-run schools after the the students killed by Taliban militants in a massacre at an army-run academy in the northwestern city of Peshawar in December, an official said Friday.