148 dead after Taliban massacre at Army Public School in Peshawar

[Red Devil]

If those pics indeed are latest... God help the parosees.
I dont think any responsible/on tv person would let even a tiny smile escape by when the nation witnessed such a tragedy.. And these two are actually a step away from laughter.

Yes, they are latest pics...they held a press conference about an hour ago.

Nawaz cracked a joke and IK was still talking about the damn dhandli in the elections.

 

[saadibaba]

Yes, they are latest pics...they held a press conference about an hour ago.

Nawaz cracked a joke and IK was still talking about the damn dhandli in the elections.

The optics matter so much in today's hypermedia culture. You wouldn't find Obama or Cameron to be caught like that even in a private moment let alone in the middle of a press conference right in front the cameras, the day after this horrific incident.

 

[jeetu]

Horrific incident , my condolence to everyone who lost friends and relatives. I hope Pakistani establishment get rid of these butchers ASAP.

 

[saadibaba]

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that there is now no distinction between ‘good and bad Taliban’ and that the country was united to fight the menace of terrorism.

Finally! Took 50,000 plus lives in the process not to mention the irreparable damage to our economy and image but still, at least we seem to be on one page now. A huge thing when it comes to our fight against terrorism.

 

[Strike Rate]

Finally! Took 50,000 plus lives in the process not to mention the irreparable damage to our economy and image but still, at least we seem to be on one page now. A huge thing when it comes to our fight against terrorism.

daer aaye derust aaye Army Chief and DG ISI both were in Afghanistan today on immediate visit they want Afghanistan govt to handover Molvi Fazalullah to us or have a joint pressure with us in Afghanistan.

 

[saadibaba]

ISLAMABAD: On his visit to Kabul on Wednesday, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif sought handover of top Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan chief Mullah Fazalullah who is wanted for terrorism cases in Pakistan.

The army chief shared classified intelligence details with the Afghan officials and revealed to them that the mastermind behind the Peshawar attack, who was from Afghanistan, was giving directives to terrorists.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Afghanistan stands with the people of Pakistan in their hour of grief.

Read: Militant siege of Peshawar school ends, 141 killed

General Raheel also met International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) commander General Joseph Dunford. Dunford condemned the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar and assured Pakistan of complete cooperation in countering terrorism and in security related matters.

General Raheel also sought Kabul's help in order to extradite top Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan chief Mullah Fazalullah who is wanted for terrorism cases in Pakistan.

A day earlier, it had emerged that a Taliban commander Umar Naray masterminded the Peshawar attack from Afghanistan.

"His communications have been intercepted as well which helped security agencies in tracing his location and whereabouts which was urgently shared not only with the Afghan army but also with Nato forces," a security source said.

Great development but why this didn't happen sooner. Still kudos to Gen.Shareef, per Talat Hussain this trip happened per Army's own incentive.

 

[saadibaba]

daer aaye derust aaye Army Chief and DG ISI both were in Afghanistan today on immediate visit they want Afghanistan govt to handover Molvi Fazalullah to us or have a joint pressure with us in Afghanistan.

Wrong use of a great idiom. In this case the 'deer ayad' costed 50,000 lives including this tragic incident. In any case, still better than nothing.

 

[Tera Gawaandi]

Taliban has released pictures of the militants

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Good looking brutes, burn in hell.

 

[Strike Rate]

Wrong use of a great idiom. In this case the 'deer ayad' costed 50,000 lives including this tragic incident. In any case, still better than nothing.

I know but look if they still dont start working on it these 50,000 can convert in to 500,000 (ALLAH na kere)

 

[Tera Gawaandi]

Great development but why this didn't happen sooner. Still kudos to Gen.Shareef, per Talat Hussain this trip happened per Army's own incentive.

No offence but this development is deja-vu of 26/11, alleging mastermind of attack (who was giving directives to terrorists) to be in western neighbor and soughting his takeover by sharing intelligence information. Indians pleaded and shouted from roof tops, it fell on deaf ears.

 

[Convict]

Some students' head was taken off as well, not just bullets. This is just too sickening.

disgusting and inhuman

 

[saadibaba]

No offence but this development is deja-vu of 26/11, alleging mastermind of attack (who was giving directives to terrorists) to be in western neighbor and soughting his takeover by sharing intelligence information. Indians pleaded and shouted from roof tops, it fell on deaf ears.

I agree, but a debate for another thread.

 

[saadibaba]

I know but look if they still dont start working on it these 50,000 can convert in to 500,000 (ALLAH na kere)

If they wouldn't have done his after yesterday's horrific incident then Pakistan would have had no moral authority to call itself a nation state. Today's developments are not extraordinary, we should have done this long time ago. So yeah I'm very happy but let's not go overboard in praise as well.

 

[SL_Fan]

Can't even begin to imagine what these poor kids and families have had to go through. Truly heartbreaking. RIP

 

[kaayal]

What did Imran khan say after these attacks????

Is he still believing in talks with these animals??

 

[Strike Rate]

What did Imran khan say after these attacks????

Is he still believing in talks with these animals??

he changed his stance many months back when these TTP animals were in no mood to talk about peace so army started the operation against these animals and Imran and all parties supported it back than and all parties are again on same page united against these animals.

 

[Yossarian]

“ a TTP commander told me when I reached him on his Afghan cellphone. “We are just displaced, but we are still in positions to attack wherever we want,” said Jihad Yar Wazir..

What the heck. When he "reached him on his cellphone"? Why didn't he flipping give the phone number to those that could launch a missile or drone that would home in on the phone signal?

 

[Fallen King]

 

[Fallen King]

Another pupil told how he watched his female teacher being burned alive as she courageously stood in the path of the terrorists and told her children to run for their lives. Afsha Ahmed, 24, confronted the marauding gunmen when they burst into her classroom and told them: 'You can only kill my students over my dead body.'

The militants doused her with petrol and set her alight, but she still mustered the strength to beckon her pupils to flee. One of her students, 15-year-old Irfan Ullah, wept as he recalled her incredible bravery.

He said: 'She was a hero, so brave. She jumped up and stood between us and the terrorists before they could target us.'She warned them: 'You can only kill them over my dead body'. I remember her last words - she said: 'I won't see my students lying in blood on the floor'.

^ Credit goes to 'AsianUnion' from other forum. She died as hero, truly Martyr. May Allah (SWT) accepts her Martyrdom and grants her in Ever-Lasting Heaven, Aameen!

 

[Fallen King]

Good to see Nawaz Sharif attending to the victims, injured patients, in hospital. This will reassure them in their time of need. ;(

 

[Fallen King]

Last update cover photo of one kid murdered by terrorists

 

[Fallen King]

No hostages: Terrorists wanted to inflict maximum casualties, says DG ISPR


PESHAWAR: The aim of the terrorists was to inflict maximum damage as they did not try to take any hostages, Army spokesperson Major General Asim Bajwa told reporters on Tuesday evening.

Addressing a press conference in Peshawar, Maj Gen Bajwa said that the terrorists entered the school from the lesser guarded rear entrance backside using a ladder. He added that the militants started to fire their weapons indiscriminately as soon as they entered the school auditorium. The children were killed in groups, he said. “This shows that they [terrorists] did not want to take any hostages.”

But Bajwa added that they were trying to uncover the depth of the militant’s plan given that the army had recovered ammunitions and rations from the militants which could have seen them last for days.

Quick army action rescued dozens

The ISPR DG said that within 15 minutes of the attack, a Quick Response Force (QRF) of the military had reached the school and started an operation against terrorists. Bajwa said that a total of 1099 students and staff were registered in the school, and that security forces managed to rescue 960 of them. Of these, 121 had been injured. Total 132 children and nine staffers were killed in the attack, he added.

While sharing the operational details of the terror attack and the subsequent counter-operation, the army spokesperson said that QRF pushed the seven terrorists back and confined them to the administration block.

He added that the Chief of Army Staff Genral Raheel Sharif directed an SSG group and its specialised unit SSG to conduct a rescue operation.

During the rescue operation, one of the attackers was killed at the door of the auditorium, while three others were sniped through the windows of the administration block. The remaining three militants were killed as the security forces stormed the admin block.

The operation left seven SSG personnel and two officers injured.

Bajwa claimed that the militants were in contact with their handlers during the attack and that soon after the QRF had moved in, the army intercepted their communication. “We know who they are and who they were in contact with but details can not be share due to operation reasons.”

“They were aware of locations and they must have carried out the recce of the area. And it is highly possible that someone from inside might have tipped them off,” said Bajwa.

The military spokesperson said that the area has been cleared and school has been handed back to its administration. However, an army cordon around the school was maintained late into the night as the military conducted controlled demolitions of recovered explosives.

Dispelling reports that there were intelligence intercepts warning of possible attacks on government and military installations, Bajwa said there were general threats regarding a terrorist attack on government and army installations since the start of Operation Zar-e-Azb, but the school had not been mentioned specifically.

Source: Dawn

 

[waqar goraya]

16-year-old ‘played dead’ to survive

PESHAWAR: A teenage survivor of the terrorist attack on a school described how he played dead after being shot in both legs by insurgents hunting down students to kill.

Speaking from his bed in the trauma ward of the Lady Reading Hospital, 16-year-old Shahrukh said he and his classmates were attending a career guidance session in the school auditorium when four gunmen wearing paramilitary uniforms burst in.

“Someone screamed at us to get down and hide under the desks,” he said. “Then one of them shouted: ‘There are so many children beneath the benches, go and get them’,” Shahrukh said.

“I saw a pair of big black boots coming towards me, this guy was probably hunting for students hiding beneath the benches.” He said he felt a searing pain as he was shot in both legs just below the knee.

He decided to play dead, adding: “I folded my tie and pushed it into my mouth so that I wouldn’t scream.”

“The man with big boots kept on looking for students and pumping bullets into their bodies. I lay as still as I could and closed my eyes, waiting to get shot again.”

“My body was shivering. I saw death so close and I will never forget the black boots approaching me; I felt as though it was death that was approaching me.”

As his father, a shopkeeper, comforted him in his blood-soaked bed, Shahrukh recalled: “The men left after some time and I stayed there for a few minutes. Then I tried to get up but fell to the ground because of my wounds. When I crawled to the next room, it was horrible. I saw the dead body of our office assistant on fire. She was sitting on the chair with blood dripping from her body as she burned.”

It was not clear how the woman’s body caught fire, though her remains were also later seen by an AFP reporter in a hospital mortuary.

Shahrukh, who said he also saw the body of a soldier who worked at the school, crawled behind a door to hide and then lost consciousness.

“When I woke up I was lying on the hospital bed,” he added.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1151360/16-year-old-played-dead-to-survive

 

[Saqs]

Not to send alarm bells ringing but close sources in SSG have told us that the death toll was almost 260.

Hope it isn't the case but I am sure SSG always understate death tolls to the media.

 

[Strike Rate]

Good to see Nawaz Sharif attending to the victims, injured patients, in hospital. This will reassure them in their time of need. ;(

That is the least a PM should do in this situation. Army Chief and Imran Khan attended the injured victims too in hospital. I really like the way Raheel Shareef was talking to the kids.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Chairman Imran Khan today at Peshawar. <a href="http://t.co/TSRt5DYnUv">pic.twitter.com/TSRt5DYnUv</a></p>— PTI (@PTIofficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/PTIofficial/status/544911564986261504">December 16, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[Strike Rate]

A mother who lost her two sons yesterday was at the Lady Reading Hospital to donate blood. She lost her husband in the Swat attack.

Look at the passion humanity is alive because there are still people like her left in this world. No words to describe

 

[mnoman15]

Looking at facebook profile pics of these poor kids, it seems they came from higher up soldier families .... TTP has it where it hurts the most ...

 

[cricketjoshila]

Hamid Gul,Mussharaff,Zaid Hamid on Tv blaming India.The Pak Army and govt. hasnt said a word about India being involved.Let there be no doubt that Indians stand with Pakistanis in this hour of grief.Let no one spread misinformation.

 

[DW44]

Not to send alarm bells ringing but close sources in SSG have told us that the death toll was almost 260.

Hope it isn't the case but I am sure SSG always understate death tolls to the media.

Sounds about right. My uncle(Peshawar police) said there were over 160 dead in cmh alone on day 1. Death toll being seriously understated which, frankly, is plain disrespectful to those who perished.

 

[xSAADx]

Was about to go to sleep but then stumbled upon picture of dead kids in the school auditorium one of whom's brain was splattered all over the floor. Not sure if i can sleep now

 

[QazzarFan]

Bajwa claimed that the militants were in contact with their handlers during the attack and that soon after the QRF had moved in, the army intercepted their communication. “We know who they are and who they were in contact with but details can not be share due to operation reasons.”

“They were aware of locations and they must have carried out the recce of the area. And it is highly possible that someone from inside might have tipped them off,” said Bajwa.


By inside, he means inside the school?? Could there be a mole? Someone who recon the security apparatus before signaling them to start their mission?

Imagine the conversation with their handlers:

We're here, what you want us to do?

Kill them all

Even the children?

Spare no one

 

[akamaka]

Not to send alarm bells ringing but close sources in SSG have told us that the death toll was almost 260.

Hope it isn't the case but I am sure SSG always understate death tolls to the media.

Thats what ive been told as well. Not sure who to believe, how can the media not get the facts right,even if the army tries to cover up.

 

[ares1000]

Heart broken and fuming with anger. All militants, their sympathizers, backers and those who peddle this ideology must be wiped out. We must get the top TTP leaders in Afghanistan.

 

[Stark]

The actual death toll being ~260 may well be true. Official count is always less so as to prevent the backlash. Sad sad revelation.

A mother who lost her two sons yesterday was at the Lady Reading Hospital to donate blood. She lost her husband in the Swat attack.

Good Lord! Respect to the lady. May she get a good position in some workplace where she possibly can mend things up.
Such people really should be picked up readily.

Was about to go to sleep but then stumbled upon picture of dead kids in the school auditorium one of whom's brain was splattered all over the floor. Not sure if i can sleep now

There really was no need to mention this here. Now maybe somebody else wont be able to sleep or think clearly.

 

[ScotRaz]

I've not said anything about this so far, just been looking through news articles, pictures, FB profiles (of the fallen) all I keep repeating is Inaa Lillahi waInna Ilahi Rajioon as soon as I see a picture of the departed.

My prayers to PP members who have lost relatives i hope that you, the familys and friends of the fallen are given an abundance of sabr by the all mighty and that the fallen are given the highest rank in jannah ferdos insha allah.

I hope to god that that the ones that did this, and pulled the strings get their's in this life and the next... insha allah.

I've read a lot of articles that have had me in tears but this extract below has really got to me for some reason, I guess a mothers love knows no bounds.

I saw this on the BBC site,

"Mama was on duty in our examination hall, but she had a sore throat and a slight fever, so another duty teacher advised her to go and rest in the staff room, which is adjacent to the auditorium. Mama left half an hour before the firing started."
"I waited at the gate. I was asking every student that was coming out if he had seen her. But nobody said yes. I rang her number a hundred times but there was no response. I rang my father who said my brother was safe in the hospital but there was no news of Mama.

"Then one of the boys told me he saw her running from the staff room to the auditorium when the firing broke out," Sitwat breaks into sobs.

"I knew then that she was running for my brother, who was in the auditorium. And that's where she fell, because her handbag and mobile phone were found near the auditorium's stairs."

 

[AFG_Brit]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I am arranging a legal team who will fire FIRs against all mullahs/ taliban apologists in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pakistan?src=hash">#Pakistan</a>. First FIR against Maulana Abdul Aziz</p>— Ali Kamran Chishti (@akchishti) <a href="https://twitter.com/akchishti/status/545293058237939713">December 17, 2014</a></blockquote>
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send one to mullah fazlul rehman

 

[Markhor]

‘We have killed all the children... What do we do now?’

http://www.dawn.com/news/1151549/we-have-killed-all-the-children-what-do-we-do-now

PESHAWAR: “We have killed all the children in the auditorium,” one of the attackers told his handler. “What do we do now?” he asked. “Wait for the army people, kill them before blowing yourself,” his handler ordered.

This, according to a security official, was one of the last conversations the attackers and their handler had shortly before two remaining suicide bombers charged towards the special operations soldiers positioned just outside the side entrance of the Army Public School’s administration block here on Tuesday.

This and other conversations between the attackers and their handlers during the entire siege of seven and a half hours of the school on Warsak Road form part of an intelligence dossier Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif shared with Afghan authorities on Wednesday.

“Vital elements of intelligence were shared with the authorities concerned with regard to the Peshawar incident,” an Inter-Services Public Relations statement on Gen Sharif’s visit to Afghanistan said.

Pakistan has the names of the attackers and the transcripts of the conversation between one of them, identified as Abuzar, and his handler, ‘commander’ Umar. Umar Adizai, also known as Umar Naray and Umar Khalifa, is a senior militant from the Frontier Region Peshawar.

Security officials believe he made the calls from Nazian district of Afghanistan’s Nangrahar province and now want the Afghan authorities to take action.

The officials believe that a group of seven militants attacked the school. Five of them blew themselves up inside the administration block and two others outside it. The attackers entered the building by climbing its rear wall, using a ladder and cutting barbed wire. They all headed for the main auditorium where an instructor was giving a first-aid lesson to students of the school’s senior section.

“Did the attackers have prior knowledge of the congregation in the main hall? We don’t know this yet. This is one of the questions we are trying to find an answer to,” a security official said.

A watchman standing at the rear of the auditorium appears to be the first victim because of a pool of congealed blood splashed in one corner of several steps in the open courtyard. Finding the rear door closed, the militants charged towards the two main entry and exit doors and this is where the main carnage appears to have taken place, according to a military officer who took part in the counter-assault. Pools of blood at the entrance on both sides bore testimony to the horrific, indiscriminate shooting.

“There were piles of bodies, most dead, some alive. Blood everywhere. I wish I had not seen this,” the officer said.

The students in the hall appear to have rushed to leave the place after hearing the first round of shooting, and this was where they barged into the waiting militants who were blocking the two doors.

Inside the main hall, there was blood everywhere, almost on every inch of it. Shoes of students and women teachers lay asunder. Those who had hid behind rows of seats were shot -- one by one, in the head. More than 100 bodies and injured were evacuated from the entrances and the hall.

Every row of seats was bloodied. On one seat, there were blood-stained English notebooks of two eighth-grade students, Muhammad Asim and Muhammad Zahid. A corner to the right of the stage in the auditorium, where an instructor was giving the lesson, was where a woman teacher, who had beseeched the militants to have mercy and let the children go, was shot and later burnt.

By that time, the Special Services Group (SSG) men had arrived and fighting had ensued and the militants were forced to make a run for the administration block, just a few metres away. Security officials believe the death toll could have been far higher had the militants reached the junior section before the arrival of the SSG personnel. It is from inside the administration block that the militants fired at the SSG men. Four of the militants blew themselves up inside the lobby of the block when they were cornered.

The impact was huge and devastating. There were pockmarks from the flying ball bearings and human flesh and hair were plastered to the ceiling and the walls. One of the bombers blew himself up in the office of the Headmistress, Tahira Qazi. Her office stands gutted. Her body was recognised later. A leg of the bomber was lying around.

Two students and three staff members were killed in the administration block along with the headmistress. The last two bombers charged towards the SSG men who had taken positions on either side of the flank entrance to the block.

One of them exploded himself and after a while, the second one did. Shrapnel and ball bearings hit the rear wall, some pierced through the trees opposite the entrance. This is where the seven SSG men were injured. One of the personnel who had taken position behind one of the trees was hit in the face, but is reported to be in stable condition.

The assault came to an end but left several questions. Could the tragedy have been avoided? Yes, given prior specific intelligence tips of August and repeated conveyance of concerns by some teachers regarding the school’s vulnerability vis-a-vis its western and northern boundary walls.

Could the casualties have been avoided or minimised? Probably not, given the short response time. By the time the SSG men arrived and began the operation within 10 to 15 minutes of the assault, the militants had carried out much of the carnage.

There was no clarity on the number of militants and their location. The SSG team arrived through the front gate covered by two armoured personnel carriers. As they moved from block to block, the first major priority was to secure the junior section.

Published in Dawn, December 18th, 2014

 

[Eagle_Eye]

send one to mullah fazlul rehman

The scumbag will never be arrested, he is an ally of NS.

 

[Hawkeye]

Looking at facebook profile pics of these poor kids, it seems they came from higher up soldier families .... TTP has it where it hurts the most ...

More than half in the school are from civilian families.

 

[AlCapone]

More than half in the school are from civilian families.

but I've heard that they specifically targetted children of army officers, they asked if anybody had family members in the army and if anybody answered yes, they were shot in the head -i'm sure civilians died too, but this school was targeted cause of it's association with the army.

 

[interstellar]

Sincere condolences to everyone who has been affected. This news is truly awful. I pray for God to give strength to the families and friends of those affected.

 

[Bashira_taeli]

 

[Mamoon]

Just back from the village, buried my cousins.

Really goes to show how meaningless life can be and everything starts to look worthless.

The elder one was close to beyond recognition. Both were shot multiple times in the head and chest.

 

[Eagle_Eye]

Just back from the village, buried my cousins.

Really goes to show how meaningless life can be and everything starts to look worthless.

The elder one was close to beyond recognition. Both were shot multiple times in the head and chest.

Commiserations to you and your family for this horrific tragedy.

 

[the Great Khan]

Just back from the village, buried my cousins.

Really goes to show how meaningless life can be and everything starts to look worthless.

The elder one was close to beyond recognition. Both were shot multiple times in the head and chest.

Allah swt give your family sabr. Truly heartbreaking!

 

[Hitman]

Just back from the village, buried my cousins.

Really goes to show how meaningless life can be and everything starts to look worthless.

The elder one was close to beyond recognition. Both were shot multiple times in the head and chest.

How are their parents doing?

 

[siddharth]

Just back from the village, buried my cousins.

Really goes to show how meaningless life can be and everything starts to look worthless.

The elder one was close to beyond recognition. Both were shot multiple times in the head and chest.

God,don't know what to say...expressing my deepest condolences.

Reading this,once again i am in tears..

 

[Theo_14]

One of the terrorist had a massive tattoo on their back, just seen the footage.

 

[Bashira_taeli]

View attachment 52034

Another injured soldier fighting for his life

 

[Bashira_taeli]

Maulvi Abdul Aziz again on TV. Why is guy being given airtime?!?!?

 

[dhump]

Maulvi Abdul Aziz again on TV. Why is guy being given airtime?!?!?

My blood is boiling listening to him this ******* should be hanged in public completely begherat insaan.

 

[Buffet]

Just back from the village, buried my cousins.

Really goes to show how meaningless life can be and everything starts to look worthless.

The elder one was close to beyond recognition. Both were shot multiple times in the head and chest.

Stay strong. Don't even know what else to say here.

 

[cricketjoshila]

[MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION]

How are the parents doing?

 

[Mamoon]

Thanks guys.

The Father is coping admirably, but I have no words to describe for their Mother.

I wish I could.

 

[cricketjoshila]

Thanks guys.

The Father is coping admirably, but I have no words to describe for their Mother.

I wish I could.

How will she cope?Its so difficult.I doubt there is a bigger tragedy in this world than a mother losing her child.

 

[Mamoon]

^ Two, at the same time.

 

[Strike Rate]

Just back from the village, buried my cousins.

Really goes to show how meaningless life can be and everything starts to look worthless.

The elder one was close to beyond recognition. Both were shot multiple times in the head and chest.

ALLAH aapko or apki family ko sabar ata kere Aameen. I have lost my close ones and i can understand the pain that space inside never fill.

 

[Markhor]

I think it was Khawaja Asif who said on the news "the smaller the coffin, the harder to carry".

 

[Ahson8]

Sincere condolences [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION].
This incident really has been tragic.

 

[Strike Rate]

Another injured soldier fighting for his life

Alkhamdulillah Kaptaan sahab is fine now here is the latest picture s

Hats off to him and all the SSG and Army jawans

 

[Ahson8]

Jesus said in the Bible: "Then some children were brought to Him so that He might lay His hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, "Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." After laying His hands on them, He departed from there." Matthew 19:14.

How does killing children advance the Taliban's cause? I know that they consider kids 12yo and up to be enemy combatants but seriously? Or is this just tribal revenge and bloodlust? I know there could never ever be anything in the Quran that would sanction this so clearly they have some other goal in mind.

These guys are not Muslims, they are just giving a bad name to Islam; as you said no religion can permit the atrocities that they carry out.

Muhammad commanded the following uncompromising rules of war:

O people! I charge you with ten rules; learn them well…for your guidance in the battlefield! Do not commit treachery, or deviate from the right path. You must not mutilate dead bodies. Neither kill a child, nor a woman, nor an aged man. Bring no harm to the trees, nor burn them with fire, especially those which are fruitful. Slay not any of the enemy's flock, save for your food. You are likely to pass by people who have devoted their lives to monastic services; leave them alone.

 

[Fallen King]

These guys are not Muslims, they are just giving a bad name to Islam; as you said no religion can permit the atrocities that they carry out.

They are Muslim people. Muslim people do good things and bad things. That being said, they are what we call 'khawarij', another category of criminal. We are dealing with 'khawarij' who kill civilians including children in the name of Allah. Hence, prescribed saying of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH): "Kill khawarij wherever you find", Verily they are 'dogs of hell'.


Imam Bukhari reports in his isnad from Ali ibn Abi Talib (ra) that he said “I heard the prophet (Saw) say : There would arise at the end of the age a people who would be young in age and immature in thought, but they would talk (in such a manner) as if their words are the best among the creatures. They would recite the Qur'an, but it would not go beyond their throats, and they would pass through the religion as an arrow goes through the prey. So when you meet them, kill them, for in their killing you would get a reward with Allah on the Day of Judgment.”

 

[GLORY OF '92]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...Pakistan-school-attack-say-medical-staff.html

At least two of the children killed by Taliban militants in the attack on a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar were beheaded, say medical staff

At least two of the children killed by Taliban militants in the attack on a school in thePakistani*city of Peshawar were beheaded, medical staff said.

"One 13-year-old boy came in without his head. It was missing," said a senior doctor who was among staff who received the dead and injured at the Lady Reading Hospital.

He said his throat appeared to have been cut with a sharp knife.

Another health worker, Anwar Ali, said a second boy from grade six also had his head missing.

"He has received multiple bullet injuries in his whole body," Mr Ali said. "His head was missing. It seems that he was beheaded by the militants." One of the boys was identified by his parents from pre-existing marks on his body.

More than 130 pupils of the Peshawar Army Public School and nine staff were killed when it was stormed by seven militants on Tuesday.

They went from room to room shooting students, before blowing themselves up with suicide belts.

The attack was in retaliation for an army offensive on Taliban positions in the north-west of the country.

Mr Ali said the Taliban had been trying to sow terror in the local population.

"We saw terrible scenes as many the parents turned pale and fainted when they saw the headless and mutilated bodies of their sons," he said.

The family to whom he handed the headless body of their son had become angry, he said.

"They cursed the Taliban militants and took away his body, weeping," he said. "The Taliban killed all the children so brutally because they wanted to send a message across and terrify people."

 

[Fallen King]

Just back from the village, buried my cousins.

Really goes to show how meaningless life can be and everything starts to look worthless.

The elder one was close to beyond recognition. Both were shot multiple times in the head and chest.

I am sorry to hear that. Brother [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION]

I can never imagine what you are going through. I only can pray that you find courage to move on. You are brave man.

May Allah (SWT) gives you, and Mother of Martyrs, the courage to move on in this difficult time, Aameen!

 

[Mamoon]

Thanks everyone.

 

[Mamoon]

Means a lot, truly.

 

[Hawkeye]

Tragic stuff, [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] .

The city was never in mourning like this before - not even during the time when there was a blast every day for an entire week.

 

[saadibaba]

[MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION].

Once again, no words are adequate to console or make sense of this madness. Just take care of yourself and your family bro.

 

[Saqs]

Thats what ive been told as well. Not sure who to believe, how can the media not get the facts right,even if the army tries to cover up.

Apparently the hospitals confirmed the 141 figure.

 

[Hitman]

Thanks guys.

The Father is coping admirably, but I have no words to describe for their Mother.

I wish I could.

Breaks our heart.

 

[Ahson8]

They are Muslim people. Muslim people do good things and bad things. That being said, they are what we call 'khawarij', another category of criminal. We are dealing with 'khawarij' who kill civilians including children in the name of Allah. Hence, prescribed saying of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH): "Kill khawarij wherever you find", Verily they are 'dogs of hell'.


Imam Bukhari reports in his isnad from Ali ibn Abi Talib (ra) that he said “I heard the prophet (Saw) say : There would arise at the end of the age a people who would be young in age and immature in thought, but they would talk (in such a manner) as if their words are the best among the creatures. They would recite the Qur'an, but it would not go beyond their throats, and they would pass through the religion as an arrow goes through the prey. So when you meet them, kill them, for in their killing you would get a reward with Allah on the Day of Judgment.”

They are khawarij yes but not Muslim. Islam doesn't permit you to kill anyone.

 

[cricket083]

According to Dunya News, there are bomb threats in the educational institutions of Lahore now, which includes Kinnaird College, Lahore College, Government College University and Lahore Grammar School.

 

[SL_Fan]

Just back from the village, buried my cousins.

Really goes to show how meaningless life can be and everything starts to look worthless.

The elder one was close to beyond recognition. Both were shot multiple times in the head and chest.

Very sorry to hear that bro Truly heart breaking. They are in a better place now.

 

[Bashira_taeli]

Just got to know today about a family friend, an Army officer, his son is in hospital after receiving two bullets in his leg. Inshallah he recovers soon.

 

[youboy]

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[saeedhk]

4 more terrorists hanged today-ET

 

[Firebreaker]

Year has passed since this tragedy

 

[Bashira_taeli]

I have been trying to avoid all Pakistani media for the last two days but you cant escape it. Just thinking about that fateful day brings tears to my eyes.

May god curse the Taliban and their supporters. May god protect our country.

 

[KeyboardWarrior]

Long live Pakistan.
Long live martyrs of APS.

 

[Fallen King]

I won't be able to forget this incident for the rest of my life. Indeed, those Talibans are the worst scum in the history of mankind. Unfortunately, this is not over yet, especially some of them who escaped from Pakistan is enjoying safe haven in Afghanistan and Pakistan can't do anything about that in Afghanistan. This is what angers me the most. What is worse? Talibans or the nation that provides safe haven to Talibans? Don't they have children? Are they really that merciless that they are going to provide safe haven to those Talibans who massacred the defenseless children, women in school? One day Afghanistan will pay heavy price. There is nothing heavier than the curse of mothers who lost their children. ;(