Why the Pakistani Taliban's war on children keeps on going

December 17, 2014 01:52

Tuesday's slaughter, carried out by six Taliban terrorists, in Peshwar is the single worst terror attack in the country's history and one of the most brutal assaults on a school anywhere. Even in conflict-ravaged Pakistan, it seems an unprecedented act.

The Pakistani Taliban emerged around 2007 as a loose coalition of militant factions in Pakistan's restive border areas. It is an indigenous movement that largely targets the machinery of the state and Pakistani citizens, and wants to impose shariah law on the country.

Defeating the group, though, has proved bewilderingly difficult.

Ishaan Tharoor, writing for The Washington Post, lists some reasons why.

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