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Peshawar mourns 148 people, mostly children, killed by the Taliban in a school massacre that prompted global revulsion.

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Pakistan is mourning as the nation prepares for mass funerals for 162 people, most of them children, killed in a Taliban attack on the school in Peshawar.
Published On 19 Dec 2014

Pakistan mourns 148 people, mostly children, killed by the Taliban in a school massacre that prompted global revulsion and put the government under new pressure to combat the scourge of militancy.

Across the country many schools closed on Wednesday as a mark of respect, while others held special prayers for those killed in Tuesday’s bloodshed in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

The assault on an army-run school was the deadliest attack in Pakistan’s history.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced that a six-year moratorium on the death penalty would be lifted for those convicted of “terror offences”, while the army chief travelled to Kabul for talks on improving intelligence cooperation.

Pakistani school children pray for victims, who were killed in the attack during a memorial ceremony in their school in southern port city of Karachi.
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A three-day official mourning period started on Wednesday, a day after seven Taliban gunmen, armed with explosives strapped to their bodies, stormed the army public school in the city of Peshawar.
Women mourn their relative Mohammed Ali Khan, 15, a student who was killed during the attack.
Thousands participate in the funeral of two school boys killed in the attack.
Sirajul Haq, head of the Islamic political party Jamat-e-Islami, leads the funeral prayers of two school boys who were killed in the Taliban attack on the Army Public School.
Pakistani mourners carry the coffin of a victim Taliban fighters rampaged through the school in Peshawar and killed at least 141 people, almost all of them children, in the bloodiest ever terror attack in Pakistan.
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"The market is closed today to mourn over Peshawar(***)s school attack incident" . Pakistan is mourning as the nation prepares for mass funerals for 141 people.
Pakistani school boys hold a banner reading in Urdu (***)We condemn Peshawar incident and will continue our struggle for education" during a protest against the Taliban attack, in Dera Ismail Khan.
People chant slogans to condemn Tuesday(***)s Taliban attack on the Army Public School during a rally in Karachi.