Prime Minister Imran Khan paid tribute to the martyrs of the Peshawar Army Public School (APS) attack and said he will ‘never let down’ the survivors and the parents of the martyred children.
On December 16, 2014, terrorists had stormed APS and killed over 140 people, including 132 schoolchildren.
The premier reiterated that Pakistan has ‘successfully defeated terrorism’ and there is ‘zero tolerance’ for violence and those who use it as a tool.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, calling it a ‘black day’, said the country will never forget.
Soon after the attack, a national consensus was achieved and the National Action Plan (NAP) was drafted to curb the rampant spread of terrorism in the country. The military, in successive campaigns, wrestled back control of areas in erstwhile FATA, which had become a hotbed of militant activity.
All perpetrators of the APS attack, including masterminds and those who executed the terrorist activity seven years ago, have been killed, sentenced to death and necessary action taken against them.
All 12 terrorists involved in the attack were apprehended by the security forces out of which six main terrorists were tried by the military courts and were handed over death sentences.