Summary
Pakistan massacre survivors vow to defy Taliban
Students grieving for their classmates massacred by the Pakistani Taliban Thursday vowed to defy the militants and return to school as soon as possible.
A team of gunmen stormed the Army Public School in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar Tuesday, slaughtering 148 people including 132 children in the restive country's deadliest ever terror attack.
As the nation observed a second day of official mourning, at the school gates in Peshawar there was defiance and a burning desire for revenge against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), whose seven-year insurgency has killed thousands of ordinary people.
Moakal Jan, 13, lost nine of his friends in the attack but told AFP he too had no fears about returning.
Life and death is in God's hands," Jan said.
Many of the school's students are the children of army personnel, and like many of his friends, Jan said he wanted to punish the Taliban for Tuesday's bloodshed.
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