Back to school: Pakistani children resume school after deadly Peshawar attack

Update: 2015-01-13 05:55 GMT

Children streamed back to school across Pakistan on Monday in an anxious start to a new term following last month's massacre of 134 students at an army-run school in the volatile northwestern city of Peshawar. (Photo: AP)

Most schools across the country of 180 million had been shut until Monday for an extended winter break in the aftermath of the December 16 attack when Taliban militants broke into Army Public School and methodically killed the children. (Photo: AP)

But some parents, especially those grieving their children, stayed away from the meeting with the army chief, saying it was too painful for them to go back to the school. (Photo: AP)

Eight-feet high walls were being built around public schools in Peshawar as part of enhanced security, with hundreds of residents volunteering to protect schools. (Photo: AP)

Pakistan has long been used to almost daily militant attacks but a cold-blooded massacre of so many children has deeply scarred the nation, prompting criticism that the government was not doing enough to curb the insurgency. (Photo: AP)

Back to school: Pakistani children resume school after deadly Peshawar attack

Back to school: Pakistani children resume school after deadly Peshawar attack

Back to school: Pakistani children resume school after deadly Peshawar attack

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