Pakistan school attack: How events unfolded in Peshawar

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Over 140 innocent lives were lost after a group of militants launched a sudden assault on the Army Public School in Warsak Road, Peshawar. We look at the aftermath of this horrific tragedy, a survivor-s harrowing account, the effect it could have on India-s security and more in our special feature.

A volunteer carries an injured student

15-yr-old Dawood Ibrahim oversleeps due to faulty alarm; escapes Peshawar school attack
A faulty alarm clock has saved the life of a 15-year-old boy who failed to wake up in time for school, becoming the only student in class IX of the army-run school where Taliban suicide bombers massacred 148 people, mostly children. Read more

Pakistan school attack: 100 students were gunned down in auditorium
The Pakistani army organised a guided tour for media persons of the school campus, including the auditorium where students were being trained in first aid and medical emergencies. Read more

Pakistan school attack: Nawaz Sharif vows -plan of action- in 7 days
Pakistan's Prime Minister held an all-party conference to form a committee that will prepare an action plan to eradicate terrorism. Read more

Tendulkar-s -heart sank- while watching news of Taliban attack on Pak kids
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Mumbai school children mourn Pak terror victims
School children across the city observed a two-minute silence in memory of the children killed in the Taliban attack in Peshawar. View images

Massacre of innocents
Seven militants rained terror for 8 hours, as they went about killing school students, moving from one classroom to another; the gunmen sprayed bullets on children even as they hid under the class benches. Read more

Centre to issue new security guidelines to schools across country
In the wake of Taliban terror attack on a Peshawar school in Pakistan yesterday, which claimed over 141 innocent lives, the Centre will soon be issuing a fresh set of guidelines for the safety and security of all the vulnerable places, especially prominent schools and academic institutions in the country. Read more

-I saw death so close-
As the terrorists roamed about the auditorium looking for survivors, the 16- year- old student, shot in both legs, stuffed his school tie into his mouth to muffle his screams and played dead. Read more

The insane logic of violence
It is difficult to find words to express the sheer horror of the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan. Killing helpless children is perhaps the lowest to which people who call themselves freedom fighters and holy warriors can descend to, writes Manoj Joshi. Click here to read his column

-Terrorists had no intention of taking hostages-
DG Asim Bajwa stated in a press briefing that the aim of the terrorists was ‘to kill as many as possible'; 9 staff members along with 132 children were killed in the attack. Read more

Noted personalities condemn terror attack on Pakistan school
Eminent personalities from the world of politics, cinema and other fields take to Twitter to express their shock and outrage at the militant attack at Army Public School, Peshawar Read their tweets

Attack on kids is a new low
One can only hope that Pakistan will recover and understand what happened after the ghastly terrorist assault on a school in Peshawar by gunmen belonging to the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan on December 16, writes Ranjona Banerji. Click here to read her column

Pakistan: Attack on school ends; militants dead, over 100 students killed
About 140 people, mostly school children, were massacred on Tuesday when heavily armed Taliban militants stormed an army-run school in Peshawar, firing indiscriminately, leaving another 245 injured. Pakistan police said the attack on a school in Peshawar is over and all six militants have been killed. Read more

All about Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan
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Pakistan siege: Imran Khan condemns attack on army school in Peshawar
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan today condemned a deadly attack by Taliban militants on a military-run school in Peshawar that killed at least 126 people, mostly children. Read more

Pakistan Siege: Delhi on alert after attack on Peshawar school
In the wake of a terror attack on a school in Pakistan-s Peshawar city in which over 100 students were killed, Delhi Police have sounded an alert to keep watch on schools in the capital city. Read more

Peshawar attack a senseless act of unspeakable brutality: Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has strongly condemned the terror attack on a Peshawar school, calling it "cowardly" and "a senseless act of unspeakable brutality" Read more

Bollywood condemns Taliban militant attack on school in Pakistan
Bollywood celebrities today termed the Taliban militants- attack on an army-run school in Peshawar, Pakistan as -sickening- and -appalling-. Read more

Pak cricketers shattered after Peshawar terror attack on children
Former Pakistan captain and senior batsman Younis Khan feels playing the fourth cricket ODI against New Zealand today would be very difficult as the terrorist attack on a school in Peshawar had left the players shattered.Read more