Job half-done

A YEAR ago seven terrorists wearing suicide vests rampaged through the Army Public School in the city of Peshawar in Pakistan’s north-west, killing 132 green-blazered schoolchildren and nine others. It was the bloodiest terrorist attack in Pakistan’s history. In the home of Farooq Shah Afridi, a poster-sized photograph now hangs of his 17-year-old son, Mobeen, one of the dead pupils. A state medal awarded posthumously sits next to the portrait. It helps Mr Afridi come to terms with his loss. But so too, he says, is the thought that the death of Mobeen and his schoolmates helped to change Pakistan forever.