A Pakistani army officer stands in front of a wall riddled with bullet marks inside the Army Public School attacked last Tuesday by Taliban gunmen, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. The Taliban massacre that killed more than 140 people, mostly children, at a military-run school in northwestern Pakistan left a scene of heart-wrenching
Pakistan May Finally Be Taking Its Terrorism Problem Seriously
Islamabad is giving in to public pressure to ramp up its counterterror efforts and revise its policies in this regard. So far, that’s meant sidestepping the constitution to try terror suspects in military courts and lifting a moratorium on the death penalty for convicted terrorists.