New York Post

EVIL IN EYES OF HEINOUS TALIBAN SCHOOL KILLERS

Pakistan vows payback & mourns 132 lost angels

- By SOPHIA ROSENBAUM

These are the faces of the savages responsibl­e for slaughteri­ng 148 people — including 132 children — at a Pakistan school.

Pakistan’s Taliban on Wednesday proudly posted the picture of the terrorist thugs who slaughtere­d students as young as 6 during a rampage through a militaryru­n school in Peshawar.

As many as nine extremists were involved in the massacre, according to numerous reports.

Survivors told harrowing tales of how they came out alive. One made it through sheer luck.

A faulty but lifesaving alarm clock made a 15yearold Pakistani boy the sole survivor of his entire ninthgrade class.

Dawood Ibrahim overslept Tuesday morning when his alarm failed to ring. As he slept, the attackers struck.

His fellow classmates were among the casualties in the deadliest terrorist attack in Pakistan — intensifyi­ng fears of more murderous mayhem and sending the country into mourning.

Syed Basit Naqvi, 13, narrowly escaped death by ducking down when one of the terrorists fired at pointblank range.

“The bullet slightly hit my head, and I deliberate­ly fell down,” he told Bloomberg News from his hospital bed. “He must’ve thought I was dead.”

Naqvi learned his mother, who worked as a teacher at the school, was among the dead when he was being taken away by ambulance and realized her body was in the vehicle.

Mass funerals were held across Pakistan on Wednesday as parents tearfully said goodbye to their children.

At a vigil in the capital city of Islamabad, Fatimah Khan, 38, said she was devastated. “I don’t have words for my pain and anger,” she said. “They slaughtere­d those children like animals.”

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to no longer distinguis­h between “good or bad Taliban.”

Critics have complained that Pakistan repeatedly turned a blind eye to some terror groups in its midst.

“We will continue this war until even a single terrorist is not left on our soil,” Sharif said.

Pakistan also lifted a 2008 moratorium on using the death penalty for terrorist crimes.

The attack was so shocking that even neighborin­g Taliban factions in Afghanista­n deemed the slayings “unIslamic.”

But the Pakistani Taliban said the attack was just the beginning of its retaliatio­n for military assaults by Pakistani troops.

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