Black day Pakistan

Background:


In June 2014, a joint military offensive was conducted by the Pakistan Armed Forces against various groups in North Waziristan which has been the site of a wave of violence. The military offensive, Operation Zarb-e-Azb, was launched in the wake of the 8 June attack on Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, for which the TTP claimed responsibility. It is part of the ongoing war in North-West Pakistan in which more than 2,100 have been killed so far, and, according to the Army, almost 90% of North Waziristan has been cleared.


Incident:

On 16 December 2014, six gunmen affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) conducted a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. The militants, all of whom were foreign nationals, included one Chechen, three Arabs and two Afghans. They entered the school and opened fire on school staff and children, killing 149 people including 132 schoolchildren, ranging between eight and eighteen years of age making it the world's fourth deadliest school massacre. A rescue operation was launched by the Pakistan Army's Special Services Group (SSG) special forces, who killed all six terrorists and rescued 960 people.

2014 Peshawar school massacre
سانحہ آرمی پبلک اسکول‬

Army Public School Auditorium, Peshawar

Location of the attack: Army Public School is located in the centre

LocationThe Army Public School, Warsak Road,Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, PakistanCoordinates34°00′49″N 71°32′10″EDate16 December 2014 
10:30 PST – 19:56PST (UTC+05:00)TargetStudents and school staff

Attack type

Suicide bombing,spree killing, hostage-taking, school shooting "Deaths156" (including 7 Terrorists)

Non-fatal injuries

114 Perpetrators Tehrik-i-Taliban  DefendersSpecial Services Group MotiveRetaliation against Operation Zarb-e-Azb

According to various news agencies and commentators, the nature and preparation of the attack was very similar to that of theBeslan school hostage crisis that occurred in the North Ossetia–Alania region of theRussian Federation in 2004.

Pakistan responded to the attacks by lifting its moratorium on the death penalty, intensifying the War in North-West Pakistanand authorizing military courts to try civilians through a constitutional amendment. On 2 December 2015, Pakistan hanged four militants involved in the Peshawar massacre, whereas the mastermind of the attack, Omar Khorasani, was killed in a drone strike in eastern Afghanistan on 18 October 2017. The Supreme Court of Pakistan upheld the death sentences of two more convicts involved in the attack in the Said Zaman Khan v. Federation of Pakistan case on 29 August 2016.

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