Sharif vows to end Pakistan terrorism
Pakistan's prime minister has vowed to rid his country of terrorism after a Taliban attack at a school in Peshawar killed 141 people, mostly children.
Nawaz Sharif spoke after talks between political parties about the massacre.
Gunmen went from class to class shooting the students in the Pakistani Taliban's deadliest attack to date. Funerals of the victims are continuing.
The Afghan president says the "time has come" for his country to work with Pakistan to fight "extremism."
Ashraf Ghani said the two countries should "jointly take effective actions" following a surprise meeting with Pakistan's army chief in Kabul to discuss security co-ordination.
New images of the school published by a BBC team that gained access to the site on Wednesday showed the scale and brutality of the attack, with pools of blood on the ground and walls covered in pockmarks from hundreds of bullets.
'Stand united'
The Pakistani Taliban (TTP) said they had carried out the attack against the Army Public School to avenge army-led operations against them in the Khyber and North Waziristan areas.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Pakistan stood united to ensure the deaths of the children were not wasted, after meeting party leaders in Peshawar on Wednesday.
In any action against the militants, he said, there would be no distinction between "good and bad" Taliban.
"We...have resolved to continue the war against terrorism till the last terrorist is eliminated," he added.
He also announced an end to the moratorium on the death penalty for terrorism cases, which correspondents say is a move aimed at countering a view held by many Pakistanis that many terror suspects end up evading justice.
After meeting Pakistan's army chief General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday, Afghanistan's President Ghani said the two countries should "work together in sincerity and jointly take effective actions against terrorism and extremism".
In the past, the two countries have accused each other of allowing cross border attacks by militants.
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