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| Anger And Grief As Pakistan Buries Students Massacred at Peshawar School
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| PAKISTAN
, 17-December-2014
11:41:19 AM |
| A shocked Pakistan on Wednesday began burying 132 students killed in a grisly attack on their school by Taliban militants that has heaped pressure on the government to do more to tackle the insurgency. (Peshawar School Attack: Track Live Updates)
People across the country lit candles and staged vigils as parents bade final farewells to their children during mass funerals in and around Peshawar, the volatile city on the edge of Pakistan's lawless tribal belt where the school was located.
Grief mixed with anger as people looked to the authorities - long accused of not being tough enough on extremists - to stem spiralling violence in a nation which has become a safe haven for al Qaeda-linked groups. (Mass Funerals in Pakistan and a School Drenched in Blood)
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At a vigil in the capital Islamabad, Fatimah Khan, 38, said she was devastated by the atrocity.
"I don't have words for my pain and anger," she said. "They slaughtered those children like animals." (Tragic Stories of Pakistan School Massacre)
Sixteen-year-old Naba Mehdi, who attends the Army School in the nearby garrison city of Rawalpindi, had a message of defiance for the Taliban.
"We're not scared of you," she said. "We will still study and fight for our freedom. This is our war."
In apparent response to public opinion after what may have been the deadliest militant attack in Pakistani history, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced he had lifted a moratorium on the death penalty. (Will Wage War on Terror Till Not a Single Terrorist Left in Pakistan: Nawaz Sharif)
The focus was also on Army Chief Raheel Sharif as he visited Afghanistan, where two sides whose relationship is strained after decades of mistrust were to discuss how to crack down on militants hiding on their common border
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