Pakistan - Taliban kill hundreds in school attack

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30491435

Pakistan Taliban 'kill 100' in assault on Peshawar school

At least 100 people, mostly children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say.

Five or six militants wearing security uniforms entered the school, officials said. Gunfire and explosions were heard as security forces surrounded the area.

The army says most of the school's 500 students have been evacuated. It is not clear how many are being held hostage.

A Taliban spokesman says the assault is in response to army operations.

Hundreds of Taliban fighters are thought to have died in a recent military offensive in North Waziristan and the nearby Khyber area.

A school worker and a student interviewed by the local Geo TV station said the attackers had entered the Army Public School's auditorium, where a military team was conducting first-aid training for students.

Many of the casualties were reportedly caused by a suicide blast.

The BBC's Aamer Ahmed Khan in Islamabad says Pakistan is accustomed to militant violence - but the latest attack has left the country in shock.

The attack started at 10:00 local time (05:00 GMT).

Mudassir Awan, a worker at the school, said he saw six people scaling the walls of the school.

"We thought it must be the children playing some game," he told Reuters news agency. "But then we saw a lot of firearms with them.

"As soon as the firing started, we ran to our classrooms," he said. "They were entering every class and they were killing the children."

Locals said they also heard the screams of students and teachers. The dead are said to include teachers, as well as a paramilitary soldier.

Ambulances have been carrying the injured to nearby hospitals. A helicopter is also in the area. Major roads in Peshawar in the city have been sealed off.

The school is at the edge of a military cantonment in Peshawar, which has seen some of the worst of the violence during a Taliban insurgency in recent years.

Many of the students were the children of military personnel. Most of them would have been aged 16 or under.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has described the attack as a "national tragedy".

The Pakistani opposition politician and former cricket captain Imran Khan has condemned the attack as "utter barbarism".

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Horrible - those poor children!

But weren't we assured the Taliban had been destroyed?

A National Tragedy. Ha! More children murdered.

I see the armchair generals are demanding the West sort out these 'animals' once and for all, wipe them out, torture every farmer, innocent or guilty. Bomb and drone everything!

Could someone let me know what good they imagine yet another round of tit-for-tat killing is going to do? The Taliban attacked this military town because their wives and families had been killed by drones, etc. The armchair generals don't even seem to know that Pakistan is a Muslim country - maybe best kill all of them too, just to be on the safe side?

The only thing that will stop the killing, IMO, is those involved realising they are acheiving nothing but death - oh, and the West butting out, and stopping using other nations in proxy wars for economic gain.

Signed disgusted of the US.

bastards.

http://news.sky.com/story/1393201/pakistan-reinstates-death-penalty-after-attack

Pakistan Reinstates Death Penalty After Attack
The PM describes the school massacre as a "national tragedy unleashed by savages", as he lifts the ban on the death penalty.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reinstated the death penalty in terrorism cases after Taliban gunmen killed 132 children and nine teachers at a school in Peshawar.

Three days of mourning have begun after the country's deadliest terror attack which saw seven gunmen storm the army-run school on Tuesday.

Government spokesman Mohiuddin Wan said Mr Sharif had approved the lifting of the ban on death penalties.

He said: "It was decided that this moratorium should be lifted. The prime minister approved. Black warrants [execution orders] will be issued within a day or two."

The moratorium on civilian executions had been in place since 2008. One execution has taken place since then.

More at link.

Stand by for wails from Guardianistas.

As these are Muslim terrorists being dealt with by Muslim courts in a Muslim country, I freely admit I will not being losing any sleep over their 'human rights'.

Do you know, I am almost pleased about this, sad to say. And it comes to something when I feel like that. But what do people expect?
The wholesale slaughter of innocent children is beyond the pail.

Sabot, I have NO quarrel with Muslim courts in Muslim countries dealing with Muslim terrorists by their legal system - it's far less likely to create more terrorists than droning, etc.

There are, IMO, times when the wider rights of society, and the protection of society, takes precedence over Western liberal human rights. And this is one of them.

Bear in mind, these particular terrorists have all been through the Pakistan court system, they haven't just been grabbed off the street and whisked off to the other side of the world.



Protesters express solidarity with families of the students killed in Tuesday's attack by calling on the government to 'crush [the] Taliban'

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I will listen to those people, not a Western liberal elite that's never heard a shot fired in anger.

I have always fought against The Death Penalty wherever it is used. But I'm a bit busy at the moment.

My capacity to give a f*ck falls by the day, Sabot, I really do not care what Pakistan does with their terrorists. I have no problem whatsoever with Pakistan ensuring they can never do it again. Especially as these ones have all been tried and convicted.

Well, these terrorists a making a right tit of Pakistan.