in a week Pakistan will forget about the peshawar massicare just like every other massicare.

[thrilainmanila]

the government and backward maulvi's who are too busy putting fatwas on celebrities for blasphamey will become news item no.1 and everybody will forget about these attacks, This event has truly made my stomach turn. I doubt the victims of this brutality will get any justice. You'll hear about the pak army extending operations but what is the outcome? i've given up on This bullshit already.

 

[Wolfhound]

this is the very sad truth of our country

 

[Basel]

the government and backward maulvi's who are too busy putting fatwas on celebrities for blasphamey will become news item no.1 and everybody will forget about these attacks, This event has truly made my stomach turn. I doubt the victims of this brutality will get any justice. You'll hear about the pak army extending operations but what is the outcome? i've given up on This bullshit already.

This is very sad and true reality of this Nation.

 

[Icewolf]

Just the nature of the **** quam... As usual these type of attacks will be blamed on everyone from aliens to USA/Israel/India but when some try to look inside of the own country, Pakis will get upset and go defensive on Islam while Pakistan slowly turns into another hell.... Not seeing bright future for this country seeing present situation.

 

[hussain0216]

Just the nature of the **** quam... As usual these type of attacks will be blamed on everyone from aliens to USA/Israel/India but when some try to look inside of the own country, Pakis will get upset and go defensive on Islam while Pakistan slowly turns into another hell.... Not seeing bright future for this country seeing present situation.

I think were actually succeeding

The TTP and terror organisations have never been weaker

they have been decimated over the last few years

todays attack however horrendous was the act of scum who didn't have the option of taking on the military

we will face more

but Pakistan is a survivor, it will overcome, its people are the most resilient in the world

The PTI protests however annoying are a necessity a necessary expression of the desire for a functional democracy e
with a competent and accountable government

the economy has been hit hard by the last decade but it is recovering

whatever they throw st Pakistan, Pakistan will overcome it

 

[TheNoob]

Hardly.

But, We've proven ourselves to be among the best and enduring people.
We have suffered alot throughout the past decades, yet we still have faith.
No matter how hard someone hits us hard, we still stand united.
No matter what, we will take our vengeance and recover through Discipline!


The TTP is on its knees.
Theres a reason they commited such an act.
It is a proof that Zarb E Azab has thrown them into a desperate position.

We may be close to our victory...

 

[SMC]

While I think this may have been true in the past, times have definitely changed now. No one has forgotten the Karachi attack, and that is what triggered Zarb-e-azb and subsequently Khyber-1. The nation shall not forget this heinous act, and neither will the army. It goes without saying that the army will expand its operation to more areas and will go after them with even more venom than before.

 

[mr42O]

i am afraid so

 

[Strigon]

We need to make it a remembrance, a page permanently written in our history books.

I have seen on social media, people demanding execution by hanging of all imprisoned TTP. I don't think its an unreasonable demand. Why do we have these snakes alive anyways? So 100s of T viruses can storm jails and free them again? What is them alive serving us? These people are out to kill ours and now we are feeding their bellies to live another day until we do something about them?

I think, we need to put these bastardz to work on gun point where they with their own hands build a monument for remembrance of victims then one by one execute them.

 

[Solomon2]

In America when something like an assassination or massacre happens the opposing political factions usually unite to adopt the policies and goals of the persons attacked; thus, if Pakistanis had responded to Taseer's murder in the American fashion, blasphemy laws would have been abolished by now.

 

[Rajput Warrior]

In America when something like an assassination or massacre happens the opposing political factions usually unite to adopt the policies and goals of the persons attacked; thus, if Pakistanis had responded to Taseer's murder in the American fashion, blasphemy laws would have been abolished by now.

I doubt this thread has anything to do with blasphemy ..

 

[Musafir117]

I already give up when our PM announce for APC meeting TOMORROW' there is no tomorrow.
He should called this meeting yesterday night.

 

[tarrar]

This is a very sad truth of our country & yes this is exactly what will happen in coming days, people will forget about this incident, just like they forgot about attacks on Hazara's in Balochistan province & many other more like it.

 

[Solomon2]

Massacre in Peshawar

By Editorial
Published: December 17, 2014

Scores of people, mostly schoolchildren, have died or are seriously injured as a result of the attack on a school run by the Pakistan Army in Peshawar. There are indications that the number of dead will continue to rise, with the army battling the terrorists who are in a school administration building. Details are as yet sketchy and much is unverified but it appears that a number of terrorists entered the school via a wall at the rear which is adjacent to a graveyard. They started firing indiscriminately as soon as they were inside the school. There is a report that a suicide bomber blew himself up in a school hall where an event was taking place. Hospitals in Peshawar are at full stretch and there are desperate appeals for blood donors. The army chief has cut short a visit to Quetta and is heading for Peshawar, as is Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were quick to claim ownership of the attack. The TTP said that it targeted the school because the “army targets our families. We want them to feel our pain.” Political leaders have been quick to condemn the attack which is developing as the largest single mass-casualty incident since the start of Operation Zarb-e-Azb that has so provoked the TTP that they decided to conduct a slaughter of the innocents.

The tragedy in Peshawar is a tragedy for the whole of Pakistan, not only for those who live in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). The TTP inasmuch as they have a unified agenda across a disparate range of groups under their umbrella, are committed to the downfall of the state. They wish to replace it with a caliphate and at least two TTP factions have declared their allegiance to the Islamic State (IS), which is currently wreaking havoc across Iraq and Syria, with designs on virtually anywhere else it can promote its ideology.

This is the same TTP with which assorted politicians were proposing that there be peace talks in the not far distant past. Politicians who refused to name the Taliban for what they were, politicians who havered and equivocated, who offered mealy-mouthed justifications for appalling acts of terror. That same TTP have now come to harvest their children, and if they can do it in Peshawar, then they can do it anywhere in Pakistan, in any school they choose, be it army or civilian. Girls or boys, it makes no difference. The barbarians are not just at the gates, they are inside the building, and laying about themselves with an enthusiasm that knows no mercy.

Now of all times is not the time for political point-scoring, for finger-pointing and slippery evasions. The TTP are ready, willing and able to slaughter children in pursuit of their goals. How this will bring them any closer to their dream is unclear, and the mass killing of schoolchildren, many of whom are likely to be the children of serving military personnel, is hardly going to endear the TTP to those fighting them in the mountains of North Waziristan and elsewhere.

Pakistan has a notoriously short memory — and attention span — for incidents such as this. They quickly fade from the headlines to be replaced by whatever the sound bite of the day is. The national mindset remains unaltered, the paradigm impervious to reality and backwards-looking in so many ways — the revision of the school curriculum in K-P will have doubtless warmed the hearts of the TTP for instance — and expressions of resolve made today disappear with the dawn of tomorrow.

Past experience suggests that the massacre in Peshawar will go exactly the same way, quickly shuffled down the national agenda as addressing the root causes of the problem requires some hard questions being asked and answered — honestly answered. Possible? Little more than a definite maybe, we opine.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 17th, 2014.