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Families of some of the victims of a massive school shooting in Pakistan hold funeral services. Julie Noce reports.
Hundreds of people poured out into the streets lighting candles on Thursday, mourning for the victims of the terrorist attack in Peshawar where 141 of which 132 were children were killed.
At least 126 people, most of them children, are killed when Taliban gunmen storm a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, taking hundreds of students hostage in the bloodiest insurgent attack in the country in years. Mana Rabiee reports.
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan, who faces corruption and terrorism charges, leaves an anti-terrorism court in Lahore. Khan was ousted from power in April last year. IMAGES
Girls are seen entering a school in the Afghan capital Wednesday. This comes after Taliban authorities announced the reopening of secondary schools, more than seven months after seizing power and imposing harsh restrictions on the rights of women to be educated. IMAGES
Kandahar, Oct 18 (EFE / EPA).- The Taliban promised on Monday that they would "soon" allow all girls to return to school, after not allowing them to access to education in secondary schools following their reopening a month ago.The ban on reopening schools for girls and young people has caused uncertainty among the Afghan people, with criticism from women's rights activists who fear returning to the dark era under the former Taliban regime between 1996 and 2001. (Camera:STRINGER) FOOTAGE SHOWS AFGHAN SCHOOL GIRLS ATTEND THEIR SCHOOL IN KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN.