Terror resurges in Pakistan


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  • Wednesday, 05 Feb 2025

Pakistan army personnel carrying a coffin of a soldier killed in an attack. — AFP

TEN years have passed since Ajoon Khan’s son died in a ghastly attack by the Pakistani Taliban that killed about 150 people, mostly children, at a military-run school in Peshawar, in northwestern Pakistan.

But the pain of loss is unrelenting – it grows only deeper with time. Khan, a lawyer, said he could never forget the parents sobbing and pleading outside the school gates, the soldiers storming the building, the children and the teachers fleeing in terror.

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