Showing posts with label #PrayForPeshawar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #PrayForPeshawar. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Does the Taliban attack in Peshawar school have any link to Malala’s Nobel Prize


#PeshawarAttack #PrayForPeshawar The massacre of 132 school children in the Army School in Peshawar by the Pakistani Taliban is being seen by many as a means of sending a strong message to the supporters of Malala Yousafzai who have grown in number after she received the Nobel Peace Prize.
It may be recalled that Pakistani Taliban had shot Malala Yousafzai in 2012 while on a school bus – it was a punishment to her for supporting education for women in Pakistan. But, she survived the attack and has, ever since, become a worldwide symbol for the fight against oppression on women and the right to education.
While accepting the award she had said that she would pursue her task of education of girls in her country and had also remarked that it is easy to make tanks but not to build schools.
Pakistan is having three days of mourning on for the children and school staff who were massacred by the Tehreek-I-Taliban in the country's deadliest ever terror attack. The world watched in horror, and united in revulsion.
The Pakistani police have issued a warning that terrorists could be planning to plant magnetic bombs on school buses and the authorities in Islamabad have asked schools to increase security and to check underneath buses and other vehicles. In view of the Peshawar attack, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reinstated the death penalty in terrorism cases.

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Death toll in Peshawar School attack reaches 141 – Afghan Taliban condemns the attack


#TotalCrackdown #PrayForPeshawar No one is safe any longer and terrorism continues to rear its ugly head from all corners of the world. In the Peshawar attack by Pakistan Taliban on innocent school children, 141 deaths have been reported and 132 of them are the children of the school who never understood what hit them. One moment they were bundles of joy, the next they were bits and pieces of flesh and bones.
The attack has been condemned by the Afghan Taliban.
The Peshawar attack was yet another terrorist attack that has left the world shocked, families in grief and no amount of condemnation can wipe out the tears from the faces of the parents who had to carry away coffins of their children. The attackers wore suicide vests and military uniforms all of seven of them have been killed.
Terrorism goes by any number of names like the Taliban, the al-Qaeda, the Boko Haram or the ISIS and due to their attacks, life is not safe anywhere, even for innocent children.
US President Barack Obama said terrorists had "once again shown their depravity" while UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said it was "an act of horror and rank cowardice".
Pakistani Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has said that she and millions of others would mourn the dead children, her "brothers and sisters" and added that "we will never be defeated". Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has termed it as a "national tragedy" and the Pakistani opposition leader and former cricket captain Imran Khan has condemned the attack as "utter barbarism" #PrayForPeshawar is the message.