Terrorists Killed 145 Individuals at Army School, Peshawar, Mostly Kids
However,
the entire world has been facing the terrorists’ attacks, but this time
terrorists did the most cowardly act by killing innocent students of between 12
to 16 years of age. The whole world has condemned this cowardly act of Taliban militants. According to the Pakistan media reports, about
145 to 147 individuals were killed and among them about 132 students. Current
reports say that around 10 school staff members were also killed in this
vicious massacre. The horrible incident took place at Peshawar city, which is
located only 120 kilometres far from the capital city called Islamabad. A group
of coward Taliban militants killed 132
schoolchildren at Peshawar, Pakistan.
Since
Taliban militants attacked a military school, thus most of the victims were the
children of military personals. Experts always analyze that due to Pakistani
military officials, Taliban militants have become so powerful. This incident
has stunned the whole Pakistan, and now everyone in Pakistan wants to get rid
of this destructive social system.
Pakistani School Attack – How Did It
Happen?
Once
the Taliban militants started killing the innocent kids, the Pakistani army
reached on the spot within 15 hours. By the time the several hours-long
officially siege at affected Army Public School as well as college ended
Tuesday evening, 132 school kids and 10 teaching staff individuals and 3
soldiers, total 145 were killed on the spot Pakistani military spokesperson A.
Bajwa explained. According to Mushtaq Ghani, information minister of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa province, about 100 individuals were badly injured, most with
gunshot wounds.
However,
the death toll isn’t including the terrorists who were responsible for
attacking, bursting and killing innocent people. Within a few minutes, a group
of mad terrorists killed almost 145
innocent people; most of them were young students. It is certainly the most
horrible incident of Pakistani history. When Taliban militants attacked on the
school, at that time students were facing the routine examination. Taliban militants killed the young children
in Peshawar Army School within a few minutes. “They began shooting
arbitrarily, “Bajwa explained, “and that was the reason maximum students were
killed.”
Mohammad
Khurrassani, a Pakistani Taliban speaker, said the terrorists scaled the army
school’s walls about 10 a.m., with the intention of killing maximum possible
number of young students.
There
was a time when Taliban group has about 300 to 500 individuals just under their
horrible custody, said Khurrassani who belongs to Tehreek E Taliban or TTP. However,
initially officials thought that it was a hostage situation, but it was not
true. Terrorists had no other aim but kill
young kids at army school in Peshawar.
Once
they started killing young, innocent school boys, Pakistani troops occupied the
area by 4 p.m.; army personals confined the terrorist to adjacent four
buildings. Some hours later, all the terrorists, total seven in number were
killed by army.
Pakistani
officials spent whole Tuesday night at the army school in Peshawar, a town
located only 75 miles far from the nation’s capital called Islamabad. Officials
were looking for victims, survivors and of course improvised horrible explosive
apparatus established to worsen the slaughter.
As
military people searched, they found that the army school’s principal was also
among the militants’ victims. This inhuman act drew sharp condemnation from all
the top Pakistani politicians, officials and of course military personals, who
finally vowed that the nation won’t stop its war against the terrorism
especially Taliban militants.
Why Terrorist Killed Innocent Students at
Peshawar Army School?
It’s
certainly the most important question when it comes to analyzing the reasons
behind the attack. Experts say that it was Taliban’s revenge for killing of
local tribesmen. Still, even by Taliban and Pakistan’s gruesome standards, the
attack was certainly the most abominable till date.
It
is regarded as the deadliest or most horrible incident inside the Pakistan
territory since October 2007, when around 139 inhabitants died and up to 250
others were badly injured in a deadly attack adjacent to procession for exiled
renowned former Prime Minister called Benazir Bhutto.
Not
on the world but even a group of Taliban in country Afghanistan, along with
which the notorious TTP is greatly affiliated, condemn the deliberate massacre of innocent young children in Pakistan as being against the holy
Islamic principles. One of the Taliban groups’ spokesperson called Zabiullah
Mujahid expressed the condolences to the victims of this attack.
The
incident took place just after the peace talks between Pakistan’s Government
and Pakistan Taliban as recently as previous spring. In fact, Pakistani
Government released about 19 militants in a goodwill sign. However, the peace
talks couldn’t achieve its motto as both Pakistan politicians as well as
Taliban groups forced to stop peace talks. Therefore, due to corrupt
politicians and hard-core Taliban militants, inhabitants of Pakistan had to
face such a massacre.
Past Terrorist Attacks in Pakistan
Pakistan
has witnessed lots of violence, many of it involving terrorists based in
states, including North Waziristan, South Waziristan and the famous Khyber
Agency. Remember, all restive areas in northwest Pakistan adjacent to Peshawar,
connecting its border with country Afghanistan. It is the famous home ground
for notorious TTP, a Taliban group that has sought to pressurise its
traditional version of Islam religion in Pakistan.
This notorious Taliban gang
has battled Pakistani army and, on several times, attacked innocent civilians
as well. Peshawar, one of the oldest cities in Pakistan, with a population of
three million, located just against the famous Khyber Pass, thus it has to face
all the terrorist attacks. Terrorist repeatedly and intentionally targeted the
town in response to military operations, such as 2009 truck bombing at Peshawar, frequented by children and women
that killed about 100 individuals.
Now,
this time Taliban didn’t hesitate to go after little schoolchildren. However,
this is not the first time when Taliban
targeted and attacked the kids, before the Peshawar army school attack, they also killed several children. The
most famous example of Taliban’s cruelty is Malala Yousafzai. Malala, a teen-age girl was also shot on 9th
of October in the year of 2012 by Taliban militants. The only fault of this youngest Noble Peace prize winner was
that she tried to encourage young girls to choose better education and fight
for girls’ rights. Since Malala was fighting for the girls’ rights and
education, she became the softest target of coward Taliban terrorists.
Is Pakistan Responsible for This Situation?
This
is certainly the most crucial question to answer. Some people say that it was
Pakistan especially Pakistani army that promoted terrorism throughout the Asia,
including Afghanistan, India and several other countries. On the other hand
some people say that the main reason behind the present terrorism is the United
States that trained the Jihadis during cold war in Afghanistan.
So, what do you
think? Who is responsible for such massacre? Can Pakistan ever come out of
Taliban’s trap? Will Pakistan learn lesson from this attack and stop spreading
terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir? How Pakistan will deal with America and
Taliban? We all need to find out answers to these questions to make our world a
safer place to live in.
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