the TTP ******* were instructed by their handlers to target 'elder' boys in school, asking before killing a child whether her/his father was in the army. plus, they chose a school-attack also because Malala is a resident of that khaibar-pakhtunwa province, and a recent recipient of the Nobel Peace prize, so sort of a vengeance-attack for that + 'officially' stated to be an attack to inflict pain on the army personnel, as per the TTP spokesperson(s). the KP province govt. (imran khan's govt.) had prior intel-input on an imminent attack.
my sincere condolences for those killed & wounded, but not sure if i can extend the same towards their parents and other pakistani folks. the people there are very different than we here, howmuchever we may like to fantasise about our common ancestry and 'brotherhood' and their (imagined) similarities with us and other world-people, for that brainwashed population. as we write, the same muck-minds (like hamid gul) are, as is the norm, bellowing in pakistani newsrooms, that there is India's hand is in this attack, while their guests on our news-shows (why do our dimwit-media even invite them/engage pakistani studios for 'discussions' on primetime!) are thumping their chests in their trademark macho-style, that they are gallantly taking on TTP and terrorists' assaults and wounds on their chests as a shield to India and how/why no one cries on how Kashmiris' freedom is being curbed and they are being killed and blah blah blah blah....so no, don't expect any change to occur in napakistan!
P.S. - i just noted and was wondering, whenever the pakistani sportsmen (are they REALLY 'sports'men in the true sense anyway?!) engage in provoking/insulting gestures towards Indian sportsmen/audiences, like what happened 2 days back, they soon get the prasaad with an extra punch! though i don't watch or follow cricket, but those of you who do, may recall the many episodes of how our Indian sportsmen gave befitting replies to those bitter nuts whenever the latter resorted to buffoonery....and then, now, this! why do we even insist and continue on having sports and cultural or any such relations with a nation sworn to be our enemy, born out of hatred, and having hatred and animosity in its blood, is a perennial question that is bewilderingly enraging! its utter naivety & foolishness on our part, to put it mildly! unrelenting enemies should be treated as enemies, esp. those, which if somehow come to be our friends some time later, don't have a history that makes them feel guilty and ashamed at their past. clearly, that is not the case with pakistan!
anyway, once again, may the souls of the deceased find Light & solace, and the wounded get hale & hearty soon, they and their relatives and general public come to realise how they've been brainwashed and abused by their devilish govt.s and the military, and the perpetrators of this unearthly crime get brutalised soon!