[DAWN] THE Beautiful Downtown Peshawar...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
school massacre points to the surfacing of a new generation of Islamist gunnies in Pakistain. The country, in the last 13 years, has suffered more than 13,721 terrorist incidents (as per the National Counter Terrorism Authority) which left 56,156 dead and more than 200,000 critically maimed. Yet by far, the Peshawar school bloodbath left the deepest scar on the hearts of Paks. The gloves are now off.
Pakistain's plethora of Islamist terrorist groups can broadly be classified under two broad categories: the 'old' groups; and the new and nascent outfits.