A nation weeps over a tragedy too familiar


Tale of horror: A child holding a placard during a protest to show solidarity with schoolchildren killed in a terror attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar. — EPA

No country has paid for its short-­sightedness like Pakistan, where some 25,000 have perished in terror-related violence in the past 12 years.

LIKE the apples in the lush orchards of Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunwa province, winter is the time the cheeks of the young take on an especially rosy hue.

On Tuesday afternoon, however, the colour marking the faces of many of the slain and wounded children of the Army Public School in Peshawar, capital of Khyber-Pakhtunwa province, was the crimson hue of blood.

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