At least 132 students and nine staff members were killed
on Tuesday when Taliban gunmen stormed a military school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, taking hostages and slaughtering children in the group's most violent attack in recent years.
Pakistani military forces eventually cleared the school and killed nine Taliban gunmen
"wearing police uniforms and suicide vests."
+ More than 1,000 schools in Pakistan have been attacked by the Taliban in the
past five years.
+ According to
reports, Taliban militants "burned a teacher alive in front of pupils and beheaded children."
+ Believe it or not, a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban, which has pushed civilian casualties in Afghanistan to a new high in the past year,
criticized the attack as un-Islamic and expressing shared pain with the victims’ families.
+ Despite a decades-long rivalry, Indians showed solidarity for their neighbors on social media with
#IndiaWithPakistan.
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