[Dawn] FEW incidents of terrorism have caused such large-scale outpouring of grief, anger and shame as the massacre in 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.
church last Sunday. But will this outrage awaken the Pak people to the urgency of dealing with the cancerous growth in their body politic of which the attack on the old church was only a symptom?
As has often happened in such situations, various parties are busy denying responsibility for mass murder in the church. The Taliban say they are not involved and they do not believe in killing innocent people.