New Delhi, Dec 17 (Agencies): Hafiz Saeed, the chief of banned terror outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and former Pakistan army chief Pervez Musharraf have blamed India for the Tuesday's suicide attack on an army-run school in Peshawar.

Taliban's commander was supported by Afghanistan, India to carry out terrorist attack in Pakistan, Musharraf said, according to CNN IBN.

LeT Hafiz Saeed also blamed India for the attack, which killed 148 people, including 132 children, vowed revenge.

Saeed's comments made on a TV programme come s in the backdrop of a news report that suggested he has planned to carry out terror attacks in New Delhi.

According to the reported findings of Intelligence Bureau Hafiz Saeed is planning multiple attacks along with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in New Delhi. The suspected targets are two hotels in the capital and a highway between New Delhi and Agra, reported Times Now.

The United Nations declared Saeed as designated terrorist for masterminding the 2008 Mumbai terrorists attack, which killed at least 166 people. The US has also announced a bounty of $10 million dollars on him.

However, despite Saeed's status as a designated international terrorist, he continues to roam freely in Pakistan and address public rallies making inflammatory statements against India with the patronage of Pakistan government.

Earlier this month, the Pakistan government ran special trains between Islamabad and Lahore to facilitate a rally organized by Saeed.

India has been demanding Pakistan to hand over Saeed for questioning in 2008 Mumbai attack case but the latter has refused to do so citing lack of evidence against him.

The men who shot 132 children at their school in Pakistan

Peshawar, Dec 18 (Agencies): The Taliban gunmen who stormed a school in Pakistan killing 148 people, including 132 children, have been identified by the militant group.

The Pakistani Taliban released the pictures as they issued a statement claiming the attack was justified because the Pakistani army had long been killing innocent children and families of their fighters.

Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurasani also vowed more attacks as he warned civilians to detach themselves from all military institutions.

In photos released by the group, between six and seven men carrying guns can be seen pictured in front of a white banner.

In one photo, the militants are standing with a local Taliban leader, AP has reported.

The statement claimed the picture was taken in one of the Pakistani tribal regions.

In an email on Wednesday, the Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurasani claimed the attack was justified because the Pakistani army has allegedly long been killing innocent children and families of their fighters.

Shattered families today held mass burials for the young lives lost in the worst-ever terror attack in Pakistan.

Analysts say now pressure will mount on politicians and generals who have long been tolerant of militants they counted as strategic assets in their rivalry with India and jostle for influence in Afghanistan.

"There have been national leaders who been apologetic about the Taliban," said Sherry Rehman, a former envoy to Washington and prominent opposition politician. "People will have to stop equivocating and come together in the face of national tragedy."

Outrage over the killing of so many children is likely to seriously erode sympathy for militants in a country where many people have long been suspicious of the US-led "war on terror", and spur the army to intensify an offensive it launched this year on havens in mountains along the Afghan border.

Army chief Raheel Sharif has already signalled that retaliation would follow.

Pakistan's Taliban, whose nominal unity has frayed this year with the emergence of competing factions, are distinct from the Afghan Taliban. But the groups are linked, and share the goals of toppling their respective governments and setting up a strict Islamist state across the region.

Widening the offensive against the Pakistan Taliban could include "hot pursuit" by the military across the porous border into Afghanistan, where many Pakistani militants hide. That could put at risk a recent rapprochement between Islamabad and Kabul.

Pakistan's Dawn newspaper quoted a source as saying that the school attackers were acting on orders from handlers in Afghanistan.