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The Peshawar Attacks

Will Pakistan ever be able to defeat the Pakistan Taliban?

Former 成人论坛 Pakistan correspondent Owen Bennett-Jones returns to Peshawar to investigate the aftermath of the military school attack. After the murder of more than 100 people, almost all of them children, Newshour Extra asks whether Pakistan will ever be able to defeat the Pakistan Taliban?

Owen will be joined by a panel of 成人论坛 correspondents and expert guests to discuss whether the politicians are at last behind the army鈥檚 campaign? Is Pakistan itself confronting the depths of divisions over the army and the political class鈥檚 approach to the Pakistan Taliban and what does this mean for stability and security in the region and beyond?

Picture: A mother with her injured son, Credit: Hasham Ahmed/AFP/Getty Images

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Sat 20 Dec 2014 02:05GMT

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