Peshawar Carnage is just another link in the Brutal Imperialist Operation in Af-Pak Region

- Rajesh Tyagi/ 18.12.2014

Gruesome slaughter, carried out by 7 armed militants of Tehreek-e-Taliban, an extreme right wing organization based in Pakistan, on December 16, inside an army school in Peshawar, has left more than 160 dead, most of them children. Peshawar, is the capital of Khyber Pakhtunwa Province, in North-West of Pakistan. The ghastly attack has invoked public outrage and widespread condemnation across the globe.

Taking exception to the attack, the right-wing capitalist government in Pakistan, led by Pakistan Muslim League (PML) under Nawaz Sharif, was quick to renew its pledge to fight against ‘terrorists’, a fight that it is already engaged in at full pace, since June 2013, at the behest of US and western Imperialism, reinforced by US drones. Even the arch rival of Nawaz Sharif’s government, Imran Khan, a cricketer turned politician and the opposition leader in Pakistan, whose party, Tehrik-e-Pakistan, runs the government in Pakhtunwa Province, has promised to throw its support behind the government in fight against terrorism.