But Bajwa, the army spokesman, said that after the Peshawar massacre, Islamabad is “hoping that there will be a strong action, a corresponding action from the Afghanistan side, from across the border, in the coming days.”
In neighboring India, which has long accused Pakistan of supporting anti-India guerrillas, schools on Wednesday observed two minutes of silence for the Peshawar victims at the urging of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who called the attack “a senseless act of unspeakable brutality.”
In an email on Wednesday, the Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurasani claimed the attack was justified because the Pakistani army has allegedly long been killing innocent children and families of their fighters.
