Mourners carrying the coffin of a victim of the attack by Taliban militants at an army-run school during a funeral ceremony in Peshawar on Wednesday. — AFP
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17 (Agencies): Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif has vowed to rid his country of terrorism after a Taliban attack at a school in Peshawar killed 148 people, mostly children.
He spoke after emergency talks with all main political parties to discuss the attack, which sparked national outrage.
The funerals of the victims are continuing throughout the day across the country, as well as prayer vigils.
Gunmen went from class to class shooting the students in the Pakistani Taliban's deadliest attack to date.
New images of the school published that gained access to the site on Wednesday showed the scale and brutality of the attack, with pools of blood on the ground and walls covered in pockmarks from hundreds of bullets.
The Pakistani Taliban (TTP) said they had carried out the attack against the Army Public School to avenge army-led operations against them in the Khyber and North Waziristan areas.
Pakistan's powerful army chief General Raheel Sharif visited Kabul Wednesday for talks with Afghanistan's president on tackling insurgents.
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