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A boy injured during a suicide attack in Shabqadar is transported on a strecher at Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan March 7, 2016. REUTERS/ Khuram Parvez


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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (L) walks with Sartaj Aziz, the Pakistani prime minister’s adviser on foreign affairs, after arriving at Chaklala air base in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on November 14, 2014. (Reuters)


Opinion: The Danger of Playing with Terror

Opinion: The Danger of Playing with Terror

With public sentiment rising against terrorism, the Pakistani and Afghan governments have decided to abandon their traditional policy of giving terror groups shelter in exchange for a promise not to carry out attacks inside the “host” nation. As a result of that...
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A soldier escorts schoolchildren from the Army Public School that was under attack by Taliban gunmen in Peshawar, Pakistan, on December 16, 2014. (Reuters/Khuram Parvez)


Opinion: A Chilling Response to a Terrible Tragedy

Opinion: A Chilling Response to a Terrible Tragedy

When news of the school massacre in Pakistan’s Peshawar first broke, it seemed exaggerated and unreal. One’s mind is sometimes incapable of believing such events are possible, or rather immediately rejects the notion that someone has decided the time has come to...
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Pakistani mourners pray during the funeral ceremony for victims of an attack by Taliban militants at an army-run school, in Peshawar on December 17, 2014. (AFP PHOTO / A MAJEED)


Pakistan mourns 148 slain in Taliban school attack

Pakistan mourns 148 slain in Taliban school attack

Peshawar, AP—Pakistanis mourned as mass funerals got underway Wednesday for 142 people, most of them children, killed the day before in a massacre by the Taliban at a military-run school in the country’s troubled northwest. Prayer vigils were held across the...