(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Mourners placed flowers bouquets placards and lighted candles at various places in the school in front of photos of murdered students.
Pakistani labourers build the wall of an army run school which was attacked by Taleban militants in Peshawar.- AFP
Peshawar Pakistan: Thousands of Pakistanis flocked to a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Sunday to mourn the 149 people — mainly children — massacred by the Taleban and demand action against militants.
Men women and children from Peshawar and other cities visited the army-run institution to offer prayers for those killed in the country’s deadliest-ever terror attack.
Mourners placed flowers bouquets placards and lighted candles at various places in the school in front of photos of murdered students.
Masons laid bricks and poured cement to raise the height of the wall around the Army Public School.
“What kind of a person can kill a child” asked local resident Imdad Hussain who came to pray for the children.
A local woman who had covered her face with a shawl said parents had thought their sons and daughters would be safe in school. But now they believed their children were not safe anywhere.
Shugufta Bibi 28 told AFP her friend lost his son in Tuesday’s attack and she had come to pay respects to his memory.
“I demand that the government close in on the terrorists and hang them in public” Bibi said.
Tributes and condolences poured in on social media websites Facebook and Twitter.
After the attack Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ended a six-year moratorium on the death penalty reinstating its use for terrorism-related cases.
Two militants convicted of separate offences were the first to face the noose.
Human Rights Watch termed the executions “a craven politicised reaction to the Peshawar killings” and demanded that no further hangings be carried out.
The Taleban said the school attack by a suicide squad was revenge for the killing of militants’ families in that offensive.
The army has also been deployed to guard major prisons housing militants. Officials have said there would be up to ten more executions in coming days.
Several educational institutions including the prestigious Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad have been shut indefinitely citing security threats.
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