Pakistan

Taliban slaughters school children in Pakistan. Taliban militants raided a school in Pakistan early Tuesday, killing 126 people– mostly children — and burned a teacher alive in front of terrified students, NBC News reports. The massacre of 141 people including 132 children by the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban at the Peshawar Army Public School yesterday was … Read more

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 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Just two days after a school massacre that stunned the … Read more

Gunmen went from class to class shooting the students in the Pakistani Taliban's deadliest attack to date. Funerals of the victims are continuing. Shah Jehan, who lives in the UK, is a close friend of one of the teachers killed. He also lost two young (CNN) — While its recent attack on a military school … Read more

Islamabad announced the commencement of a three-day mourning period. Vigils were held across the country as the nation struggled to come to terms with the brutality exhibited in one of the deadliest single-day attacks in the country since the Pakistani  THE TALIBAN have killed at least 130 people, the majority of them children, after attacking … Read more

By Madalena Araujo and Mick Krever, CNN Pakistan's war against the Taliban will continue, Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, in the wake of the Taliban massacre of  PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan was plunged into mourning Tuesday after Taliban militants in suicide vests laid siege to a school, massacring 132 … Read more

U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson issued a statement extending his “deepest sympathies and condolences to the families of the victims of Tuesday's heinous attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar.”. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — “'God is great,'” the Taliban militants shouted as they roared through the hallways of a school in Peshawar, Pakistan. Then, … Read more

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — A deadly, hours-long siege of a school in northwest Pakistan ended Tuesday evening with all the Taliban militants responsible killed, at least 130 people, most of them children, dead and a  THE TALIBAN have killed at least 130 people, the majority of them children, after attacking a military-run school in Pakistan. … Read more