Chilling Pictures Reveal Taliban Fighters Who Murdered More Than 100 Children In Peshawar Attack

Faces Of Pakistan Gunmen Revealed In Chilling Pictures
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The Taliban fighters who stormed a military-run school in Pakistan and murdered over 140 people - most of them children - can be seen for the first time in new images.

The armed men stand stony-faced in three pictures, posing in front of banners in the first images of the killers who carried out the worst terrorist attack in Pakistan's history. In one, they wear military uniforms and are lined up outside.

Seven gunmen from the Pakistani branch of the extremist group attacked the Army Public School and College in Peshawar with explosives strapped to their bodies, by scaling a back wall on Tuesday morning.

Students were gunned down and some of the female teachers were burned alive, with pupils made to watch.

The men were reportedly ordered to carry out the attack by Maulana Fazlullah, the country's Taliban leader who also ordered the attempt to kill girls education campaigner Malala Yousafzai.

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The leader who ordered the bloody attack is the same man who arranged the attempted murder of teenage education campaigner Malala, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year, according to the Daily Mail.

Maulana Fazlullah is the head of Pakistan's Taliban and took control of the group 13 months ago. The brutal Peshawar school massacre is thought by some to be revenge for 17-year-old Malala winning the iconic prize to worldwide acclaim.

The Pakistani Taliban released the pictures with a statement on Wednesday, in which spokesman Mohammad Khurasani claimed the attack was justified because the Pakistani army had been killing the children and families of Taliban fighters.

A harrowing list of children killed in the school massacre emerged on Tuesday, showing "dead" next written next to 19 children - some of whose identities were not yet confirmed.

The piece of paper was purportedly from the accident and emergency department of the nearby Lady Reading Hospital, and was posted to the Twitter account of Meer Bilawal Ali.

He added these words to his tragic picture: “The schools are supposed to publish results cards. Not this…”

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People attend funeral of a student killed in Tuesday's Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. Pakistan is mourning as the nation prepares for mass funerals for over 140 people, most of them children, killed in the Taliban attack on a military-run school in the country's northwest. A three-day official mourning period started Wednesday, a day after seven Taliban gunmen, explosives strapped to their bodies, stormed the army public school. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A family member of students killed in Tuesday's Taliban attack on a school prepares for their burial in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. Pakistan is mourning as the nation prepares for mass funerals for over 140 people, most of them children, killed in the Taliban attack on a military-run school in the country's northwest. A three-day official mourning period started Wednesday, a day after seven Taliban gunmen, explosives strapped to their bodies, stormed the army public school. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People attend funeral of a student killed in Tuesday's Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. Pakistan is mourning as the nation prepares for mass funerals for 141 people, most of them children, killed in a Taliban attack on a military-run school in the country's northwest. A three-day official mourning period started Wednesday, a day after seven Taliban gunmen, explosives strapped to their bodies, stormed the army public school in the city of Peshawar. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People carry a body of a student killed in Tuesday's Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. Pakistan is mourning as the nation prepares for mass funerals for over 140 people, most of them children, killed in a Taliban attack on a military-run school in the country's northwest. A three-day official mourning period started Wednesday, a day after seven Taliban gunmen, explosives strapped to their bodies, stormed the army public school. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People attend funeral of students killed in Tuesday's Taliban attack on a school prepare for their burial in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. Pakistan is mourning as the nation prepares for mass funerals for over 140 people, most of them children, killed in the Taliban attack on a military-run school in the country's northwest. A three-day official mourning period started Wednesday, a day after seven Taliban gunmen, explosives strapped to their bodies, stormed the army public school. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Siraj-ul-Haq, fourth right, chief of Pakistan's religious party Jammat-e-Islami, leads a funeral prayer for a student killed in Tuesday's Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. Pakistan is mourning as the nation prepares for mass funerals for over 140 people, most of them children, killed in a Taliban attack on a military-run school in the country's northwest. A three-day official mourning period started Wednesday, a day after seven Taliban gunmen, explosives strapped to their bodies, stormed the army public school. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Pakistani mourners carry the coffin of a victim of an attack by militants on an army-run school during a funeral ceremony in Peshawar on December 17, 2014. Militants rampaged through an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar and killed at least 141 people, almost all of them children, in the bloodiest ever terror attack in Pakistan. AFP PHOTO / A MAJEED (Photo credit should read A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:A MAJEED via Getty Images)
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Pakistani mourners carry the coffin of a victim of an attack by militants on an army-run school during a funeral ceremony in Peshawar on December 17, 2014. Militants rampaged through an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar and killed at least 141 people, almost all of them children, in the bloodiest ever terror attack in Pakistan. AFP PHOTO / A MAJEED (Photo credit should read A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:A MAJEED via Getty Images)
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Pakistani mourners carry the coffin of a victim of an attack by militants on an army-run school during a funeral ceremony in Peshawar on December 17, 2014. Militants rampaged through an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar and killed at least 141 people, almost all of them children, in the bloodiest ever terror attack in Pakistan. AFP PHOTO / A MAJEED (Photo credit should read A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:A MAJEED via Getty Images)
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Indian schoolchildren light candles at their school in Mumbai on December 17, 2014, in memory of schoolchildren killed during an attack on an army school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar by armed Taliban terrorists. Schools across India have observed a 2 minute silence as called for by prime minister Narendra Modi in memory of those killed in the attacks. AFP PHOTO/INDRANIL MUKHERJEE (Photo credit should read INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:INDRANIL MUKHERJEE via Getty Images)
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An Indian schoolchild holds a lighted candles while observing a two minute silence at a school in Mumbai on December 17, 2014, in memory of schoolchildren killed during an attack on an army school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar by armed Taliban terrorists. Schools across India have observed a 2 minute silence as called for by prime minister Narendra Modi in memory of those killed in the attacks. AFP PHOTO/INDRANIL MUKHERJEE (Photo credit should read INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:INDRANIL MUKHERJEE via Getty Images)
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Indian schoolchildren prepare lighted candles ahead of a vigil in the northern city of Jalandhar late December 16, 2014, as they pay tribute to slain Pakistani schoolchildren and staff after an attack on an army school in the restive city of Peshawar. Pakistan began three days of mourning on December 17, for the 132 schoolchildren and nine staff killed by the Taliban in the country's deadliest ever terror attack as the world united in a chorus of revulsion. The 141 people were killed when insurgents stormed an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday and systematically went from room to room shooting children during an eight-hour killing spree. AFP PHOTO/SHAMMI MEHRA (Photo credit should read SHAMMI MEHRA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:SHAMMI MEHRA via Getty Images)