The attack left at least 160 people killed, a lot of them school children. “Today, I wish I hadn’t obeyed my teacher, then my friends would have still been alive”, Paracha says. She said that operation Zarb-e-Azab and the National Action Plan are being forwarded successfully against terrorism.
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The prime minister concluded the ceremony with a speech promising retribution against the TTP, also known as the Pakistani Taliban, and pledging to eradicate terrorism.
The families of the victims were awarded with medals and songs and poems, written in memory of victims, touched deeply the attendees. Pakistani Taliban militants attacked an army-run school in Pesha…
Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit on Wednesday said that perhaps no other nation in the world has suffered as much as Pakistan did due to terrorism.
NEW DELHI-As Pakistan marks the first year following the Peshawar attack, surviving school children, teachers and parents have been attempting to make the long journey back to normality.
A military trial conducted behind closed doors in August found seven militants linked to the Peshawar massacre guilty and handed death sentences to six of the defendants as well as one life sentence.
Germany, the United Nations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on Pakistan to cease executing prisoners.
News anchors on Geo TV, the country’s leading private broadcaster, were also clad in APS uniforms on Wednesday, with the move enraging many social media users who termed it “insensitive”.
Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif, CJSC General Rashid Mehmood, chief ministers of four provinces, chief minister Gilgit Baltistan, Governor KPK and Gilgit Baltistan, PTI chairman Imran Khan, JI chief Sirajul Haq and other leading political and military leaders were also present in the ceremony.
According to reports, demonstrations and rallies were held in many parts of the country to pay tribute to the victim of the deadliest terror attack in the country. In preparation for the ceremony, security across the provincial capital was beefed up with heavy military deployment on Warsak Road, the main thoroughfare leading up to the Army Public School.
A special ceremony to pay homage to the martyrs of Army Public School Peshawar was held at civil secretariat Lahore.
Parents of the 134 children killed in the horrific incident were greeted by General Raheel Sharif at the inception of the ceremony at the Army Public School.
After the attack, all schools were ordered to rapidly build walls and extra defences.
The Taleban have said they carried out the attack in retaliation for an army offensive on extremists in the tribal areas.
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But critics have voiced concerns over a failure to tackle the long-term causes of the violence.
