Pakistan To Respond to School Attack

Pakistani officials are taking steps to respond to Tuesday's Taliban assault on a school in Peshawar while the nation begins three days of mourning for the 132 children and nine staff members who died. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif approved an order Wednesday lifting a moratorium on the death penalty in terror cases that had been in place since 2008. Sharif has also pledged to continue a military offensive against militants in the country's northwestern tribal region, near the...

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