BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has strongly condemned Taliban attack on a school at Pakistan’s Peshawar which claimed at least 141 lives, mostly of students, on Tuesday. In a statement, she said: ‘This form of cruelty of the Taliban is aimed at destabilising the peaceful environment of the world.’ At least 132 students and nine staff members were killed after Taliban gunmen, attired in military uniforms, broke into the Army Public School at Peshawar and opened fire. Khaleda said she did not have the words to condemn this barbaric attack.
This sort of attack and cruelty against innocent children and adolescents had anguished the conscious people of the entire world. She prayed for the departed souls of the victims and conveyed her sympathy to their grieved families. In another statement, BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir condemned the Taliban attack, according to a news agency.
