How are airstrikes supposed to single out terrorists? There is bound to be a lot of collateral damage!!!

You dont need to ask anyone. Go get them.

Der aaye, durust aaye. But sawaal hain, kaafi hain kyaa? Too late, too little?

Bring it on !

Kill them all so our children (Indian and Pakistani children) can be safe!

Show no mercy. And we need to clean some from the cities as well.

Kill all terrorists!!! these monsters do not deserve to live!!! Pakistan Zindabad!!! Army Zindabad!!!

GO for the kill, General.

more and more

World is so cruel indeed... So much violence and killing...

If they are hiding or coming from Afghanistan, just go there and kill them all. Just tell the Americans you are going to take care of it inside Afghanistan and nobody will try to stop you in there. Americans will be more than willing if we handle this once and for all. Forget about Afghan government.

I pray that the military goes after every perpetratr and kill him mercilessly.

Just kill em all

Pak Army, may Allah bless you..please please..for the sake of this beloved country and its people get rid of every single terrorist rat ..they are a virus and are killing the country slowly.. no more dialogs, just see and kill these animals, even the soil doesnt want these creatures to walk on it May Allah help you and people of pakistan, May Allah guide our leaders and let them work for the country and not their egos..ameen

Extradite him and hang him. No more leniency anymore

Pak Army ZindaBad CrushTTP

If Afghan Government is with us, we can exterminate leadership of terror within no time.

Keep them killing till humanity breaths and comes out of terror experience.

kill them all. time to end this menace

Kill them all please.

The Nation Stands with you, destroy the Taliban ! and if the Afghans don't cooperate, go in and finish the job

shabaash jawano!

i wish and pray pakistani army will strongly react against those who are responsible for killing of innocent children in peshawar and ensure that they suffer more painful death than can ever be imagined.

Bombard them in such a way they should not dare to kill even a ant....................... Heart broken Indian.....

It's about time we eradicated this cancer form our Land, Pakistani Army I salute you! May Allah help us all.

It's about time we eradicated the cancer from our home Land, Pakistani Army i salute you. May Allah help us all.

Thank you, PAF.

No one takes on Pakistani's and gets away with it. This group has had it.

Kill them, kill them all. Give them hot pursuit across the border also. Pak army zindabad!

Sometimes, one ends up digging his own grave! I bet the Talibans underestimated what we can do, if we get our mind set - and they helped us to set our mind. Something tells me, in a few years, we will be talking about Talibans in the past tense.

"57 terrorists killed" For the last few months, almost every day we read ex number of terrorists killed in air raids. My question is, how are those killed identified as terrorists? Do they have some kind of label on their forehead? Those killed by American drone attacks were always civilians and now all killed by Pak military air raids are terrorists, difficult to digest this. Waziristan has become a testing ground for war machinery products much the same way as Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan was and is for USA . The local arms industry is making over billion dollars in sales, so a few thousand dead does not matter much. We are following the masters footsteps.

@M.Saeed we don't need to seek their permission. It's is game over for TTP and their smpathizers

Yes, its a time of action instead of reciting a litany of complaints.

What good would that make! People shoul understand that illitracy and ill informed are playing the major role $

Keep your heads high Pak Army. We are behind you every second of the way. Go get them and strike them hard so that no one ever thinks about hurting our children. Pakistan Zindabad!!!

Its now open season on terrorists of all kinds.

A political will (I can assume it is there now) to get rid of this menace will get it!

A US drone strike taking out Mulla Fazlullah and his gang can overnight transform US's image in Pakistan. God speed!

Pak army live long , we pray with almighty ALLAH for your safety and success.Indeed every Pakistani is proud of you.

57 is not enough, we need them all dead! Kill the cowards!

@sohrab Now people like Sohrab beat drums about "collateral damage" - forgetting that 1 million IDPs have already been relocated

How much effort is put before pulling the trigger? It must be made sure that collateral damage is minimal if not none. If we also kill indiscriminately then what's the difference between us and these Godless barbarians.

Good job. No extremist should be free.

Excellent. Kill them all. Do not leave even a single evil terrorist in Pakistan. The nation is behind you.

@sohrab That entire area has been evacuated. Those who are left behind have other designs.

No more tolerance for the ruthless killers. We must deal with them with iron fist. It is now time to eliminate them completely. Catch their supporters and sympathysers. Throw the killers in the gallows!

Finish them If you need more People to fight them Start recruiting. You have the whole nation ready to get rid of these butchers I am ready to volunteer.

Dedicated to Peshawar’s Victims My Child: A mother’s perspective I remember the time when you were born and the love that immediately followed … The thought of you getting to the height of success was always with me… The thought that God give me enough time that I could see you through to your success… and don’t die leaving you in the middle… The thought to see you get married and to play with your kids and feel the calm and tranquility within me was always overwhelming… Yes… that would be the time when I would like to die… and die in your arms my child But… What is this… All those thoughts ae shattered… My love is shattered… My dreams are shattered… Why… I cannot comprehend … I don’t want to believe… You were taken from me…. My pain is searing… My eyes are empty… You will come back, right… Please walk through this door… for one last time… Let me at least kiss you… once more! I want you to know my love will never die… And I shall see you soon…

US attacking with drones and Pakistan using its Air Force against its own citizen is no solution. The very same people Pakistan used in Afghnastan. This can only escalate conflict. They are equally proud people. Anger can only bring worst in people .

If it talks like Taliban, thinks like Taliban, and looks like Taliban, kill it. Its

Keep on killing until they all dead, we must avenge the death of our innocent children.

Need to get to the facilitators, too. That would be long lasting success.

PK Govt (both civilian and armed leadership) must need to develop thoughtful strategy to tackle terrorism and it's sponsors. Any move in dark would harm PK from all sides. This is what sponsors of terrorists want. First it is important to recognize that terrorists do not live only in northern areas (FATA) etc. They are living next door to us in PK cities, towns and villages. There are many internal sponsors who are providing them safe sanctuary, logistic support and information hence these terrorists are able to conduct various attacks in Pakistani cities with ease. Majority if those cases they knew the internal maps of those areas as well where they planned to attack hence local element supporting them is definitely there. Various reports of intelligence agencies also proved the involvement of religious seminaries in cities providing shelter to the terrorists. Attacking terrorists only in northern region will not eliminate terrorists sitting next door. In fact they will cause serious harm to peaceful citizens. All schools, colleges, and Govt places can not be protected from 8 dimensions hence elimination of local terrorists is as important as distant ones. At the same time PK leadership need to recognize that there delay in appropriate action allowed terrorists ideology promoters to brain wash a huge population that lives among us or around us. Hence it is most important to target those who are busy in brain washing youngsters. These could be political leaders, prayer leaders, religious clerics or even community activists. Targeting specific religious ideology promoting terrorism in our country needs to be targeted at first place..

Meanwhile Govt should not ignore international sponsors of terrorists. These are those countries who pretend our friends and brothers but actually harming PK 's roots just for the sake of their hegemony in this world. They are selfish monarchs serving only their personal agendas at the cost of poor people of Pak, Afg, Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, Libya, soomalia, Lebanon, Behrain etc etc. PK Govt if sincere with PK and people of PK they must dissociate them from the influence of such countries and should look for other options that can protect PK and her citizens. . But this dissociation should be wisely handled. The best way is to sever financial and logistic support of terrorists and their ideology bearers (clerics and communities) from their international sponsors. PK Govt have to keep their strategy secret. Killing few thousand Taliban would not resolve terrorism until Taliban producing factories, their national and international sponsors are not targeted. I wish PK nation and her political and armed leaders can see the real culprits and able to break their back bone with courage and determination. If PK nation and leadership still could not formulate a wise plan and could not protect the interests of PK innocent citizens then it would be last chance for them to rescue this sinking ship. God bless Pakistan and innocent citizens of Pakistan.

I can't find any word to condemn this barbaric evil act. i am very saddened and dumbstruck. God bless their souls (RIP) Being a teacher, I am totally shattered and I am sure that the teaching fraternity around the world are deeply grieved by this news. This is all because of the evil lust and the curse of materialism. Wake up.. you shallow power hungry leaders.. you have no respect for humanity. I don't blame these barbarians, actually I blame those who made and groom such mentality wherein the freedom has been encircled and tightened by the vested and vicious interest of the usurpers. We are being left with the ecstasy of consumption totally oblivious of its negative repercussions which we experience in our daily lives and also it happened again in Peshawar.

Not sure if a solution to attacks on our children lies in more war being conducted by the Pakistani army. Military operations & drone attacks have lead to an increase in militancy, not a decrease. Militancy from FATA and Lal Masjid in 2007 took place after the rise of military assaults and troops being stationed in FATA, not before. A very useful piece of research on the rise of militancy, the army & imperialism in Pakistan: http://www.tanqeed.org/2014/08/zarb-e-azb-and-the-left-on-imperialisms-materiality/#sthash.CTjkuSqd.dpbs

@K Ramani Really. !! They are proud peoplewho don't hesitate to kill innocent kids ? They can kill kids ---you cannot argue with these people ---you can only kill them. Escalate ? You are worried about? My dear they killed more than 140 kids , burnt alive their teacher infront of them , killed the children infront of moms --- and you are worried about escalation ? They ( Taliban ) are the illegitimate sons of Zia and United States of America ---- they ( all ) need to be killed. ( of course not the kids and women. ) Any one with brains would know by now that Taliban are not capable of talks. ---- so -- anyone who even hints at talks again -- should be considered one of them. And treated as such.

@K Ramani I agree. Very well said.

I am not sure how bombing your own country is sane ! How do you prove that you are killing only Taliban ?

Stop taking aid (financial, economic and military) from Saudi, Iran, UAE and US and things will improve in this country. All this aid has done over the last 67 years is created corrupt & power hungry leaders, politicians and Govt officers, brought arms & ammunition on the streets, created sectarianism and created fanatics at madarssahs using misguided form of Islamic ideology. Pakistan has become a testing & battling ground for these powers and means to brain drain the country to employ the intelligent people at cheap rates to develop their own countries.

Immediate need of -- speedy courts for terrorists and a quick sentence once proven. ( death sentence ). Start with hanging already proven terrorists ASAP. Anybody talking against death penalty for people like these , should be put in prison and tried also.

@zia And anyone who has sympathies towards Taliban.

COAS goes to Afghanistan and complains against Fazlullah. Now Afghanistan will demand some proof. Oh, this is similar to India pursuing Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan.

we want our country clean from these terorrists.

This is a cowardfly act and the perpetrators don't deserve any mercy. Pakistan Army is strong and if they have the will, they can clean the terrorist breeding grounds for ever.

ISPR should stop this nonsense of making the nation fool. They are planting these numbers since the operation stared and can not be verified by any other source. If the successes are true, terrorist were not able to kill 141 innocent children.

@indian Yes, but these miscreants don't allow school to run - terror is wide-spread. Plus, it is a long term solution, you can not give them a free hand till that time. You have to take action to keep them at bay or else this menace would take you down.

Dawn, I have known you as one of the most responsible news paper in the sub continent who tries to be as neutral as possible while reporting on matters of truth. Now comes your responsibility to find the truth of army killing waziristan terrorists. How come suddenly they find and target 57 terrorists over night. In the time of great grief when emotions overtake the mind and any such act of vengeance is considered justified, that is when the responsibility kicks in, especially yours. The terrorists have killed the little innocent flowers in name of revenge, I hope the army is not actually doing the same to their family and children, why else they would have stopped media from visiting areas targeted by zarb-e-azb in the months gone by. A kid belongs to humanity not the enemies or friends, how else will the army justify themselves in-front of Allah and what will differentiate them from the bad souls if they end up doing the same to their family and kids in name of counter terrorism. This comment need not be published, but message be taken that collateral damage if done on purpose is an equal crime and you have to be guardian of justice in this testing time

Don't lose your brains by this tragic Peshawar incident. How can you identify the exact person from so high in an fighter jet. It is going to cause lot of collateral damage. The children and family members of insurgents will be killed. A vicious cycle of retribution may be started by family members of innocents killed. Even if you have to face some casualties go for ground operation otherwise you are going to alienate whole lot of people.

@sohrab Children and families have already moved out of the area. If someone haven't moved, it is their fault as warning has been given 6 months ago.

"Go clean em up Jonny"

Make them pay......so no one ever kills our children again. - a grieving Indian

@sohrab through intelligence and if if majority of ppl hsve already migrated out of these troubled areas. The airforce wont like to waste hundred.thousand worth.of guides bombs. Fuel and effort if they dont have good intel on.thr targets. Its not a 100 percent safety but still a high of success