Massacre of Schoolchildren Showing Taliban’s Desperate Situation
"Targeting innocent schools students shows the desperate situation of the Taliban," Jadmani told reporters in a ceremony held in Tehran on Monday to commemorate the death of 148 people, including 132 Pakistani school children, who were killed by the Taliban in a terrorist attack last Tuesday.
He reiterated that the tragic incident has influenced the entire Pakistani nation, and said, "This event has made us even more resolved to take action against terrorism and uproot it."
"We are trying to fight against terrorism which is the enemy of Pakistan and Islam," he added.
The Pakistani ambassor underlined that the slaughter of the Pakistani school students has made Islamabad more resolved to eradicate terrorists in the country.
"The Paksitani army has launched operations against them (terrorists) since June and it has destroyed their command centers ...," Jadmani said.
Last Tuesday, gunmen went from classroom to classroom, shooting children, after a huge blast shook the Army Public School.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack as retaliation for a major military offensive in the region, saying militants had been ordered to shoot older students.
Police said that a bloody Taliban raid on an army-run school in Northwest Pakistan ended with all six attackers dead.
The assault on the school in the city of Peshawar killed at least 130 people, most of them students, according to officials.
"The combat operation is over, the security personnel are carrying out clearance operation and hopefully they will clear the building in a while," Police Official Abdullah Khan said.
"Dead bodies of six terrorists have been found in the building."
Chief Army Spokesman General Asim Bajwa said on Twitter that explosive devices planted in school buildings by the militants were slowing clearance efforts.