Pakistanis mourn the 148 victims of the attack on the school in Peshawar. This massacre which targeted children triggered a shock wave in the country. Calls for the restoration of capital punishment have increased in the first three days of national mourning. There are six years since the death penalty was suspended in Pakistan but these heinous acts have returned to the agenda. Under pressure, the Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, managed to unite the political class and to lift the moratorium on capital punishment:
"We will continue this war as long as there terrorists on our soil," he has said.
Pakistani authorities are now looking brain of the attack claimed by the Taliban Movement of Pakistan, a group of Pakistani armed Islamist factions at war for seven years against Islamabad.
Its leader, Mullah Fazlullah, has taken refuge in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan. Today, Pakistanis and Afghans have promised to fight all these terrorists.
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