With 141 dead, 132 of whom were children, Tuesday's attack on a school in Peshawar is one of the worst moments in Pakistan's history. The scale of the terror is almost incomprehensible and was encapsulated best by this tragic quote from the father of one of the young victims: "My son was in uniform in the morning. He is in a casket now."
While television channels both in Pakistan and around the world repeated visuals from outside the school and that of mourning parents, those in charge of the country's newspapers sat down to decide what would be on the front page on this day of anger and mourning.
A sampling of these papers, from simply announcing this as Pakistan's darkest hour to calling the terrorists "devils" butchering "angels," gives you a sense of the extent of Tuesday's horror. One of the papers even makes a reference to the date of the attack, December 16, which happens to be the anniversary of Bangladesh's liberation from Pakistan, remembered as a national tragedy.
We welcome your comments at
letters@scroll.in.
While television channels both in Pakistan and around the world repeated visuals from outside the school and that of mourning parents, those in charge of the country's newspapers sat down to decide what would be on the front page on this day of anger and mourning.
A sampling of these papers, from simply announcing this as Pakistan's darkest hour to calling the terrorists "devils" butchering "angels," gives you a sense of the extent of Tuesday's horror. One of the papers even makes a reference to the date of the attack, December 16, which happens to be the anniversary of Bangladesh's liberation from Pakistan, remembered as a national tragedy.
Pakistan Today
The Nation
The Daily Times
The Statesman
The Express Tribune
Dawn
The News
Pakistan Observer
