agenda to its meeting next week. pyongyang calls the cia s harsh interrogation techniques brutal and medieval. this new move turns the tables north korea which is already on the security council for its human rights record. the council will call for north korea to be brought before international court for crimes against humanity. eight minutes after the hour right now. and the funerals have begun this morning in pakistan for the 145 people killed, murdered, in the horrific attack by pakistani taliban gunman. the number of dead includes 132 students most of them under the age of 16. that death toll does not include seven terrorists who all died in the attack. cnn s michelle stockman live for us from islamabad. good morning, michelle. good morning. well, again, this is a nation reeling with grief. peshawar say city paralyzed as funerals began last night.
court for crimes against humanity. and funerals have begun in pakistan for the 145 people murdered in the horrific attack by the pakistani taliban. that number includes 132 students under the age of 16. children who died in this attack. they were slaughtered by these terrorists. cnn s michelle stockman live for us in islamabad. good morning, michelle. that s right, john. this is a country that has just been shocked. this is a city, peshawar, that is paralyzed with grief. and a nation that has so much political division, that today is trying to show a united front. we ve been addressed by the prime minister who has said that this attack is blowback from the success of the military s operations against the taliban in their strongholds in the northwestern areas of the country, the tribal areas where they are known to congregate and
appreciate it. the funerals have already begun in pakistan for the 145 people murdered in the horrific attack by pakistani taliban gunman. the number of dead includes 132 students, kids, most under the age of 16. the overall number does not include the seven terrorists who died in the attack. cnn s michelle stockman is live for us in islamabad. what s the latest. we understand that in response to this attack, the army chief has travelled to kabul to meet with the afghan president there now. we re waiting to hear details of what meeting s about. it could be to investigate possible links to this attack within afghanistan. and also, it could be to discuss a response. as we know, the pakistani taliban has a stronghold in tribal areas that are in the border between afghanistan and pakistan. they easily travel through the
porous border into and between the countries. and, soer that s part of the response. we ve seen the prime minister address the nation. he says that it s due to the military s strong campaign against the militants in this area that this attack has happened, that it s part of the blowback. and so he says, it s likely that this will continue. but country right now is united states. pakistan is a divided country. there are a lot of political tensions, a lot of tensions between government and military, but they re trying to show a united front right now as the country, the city of peshawar deals with this massive blow. just grief across the country, as they ve spent the day burying their dead. it s unimaginable to think about the grief they must be going through. michelle stockman in islamabad, thanks so much. we have new information about the terror attack on a terror attack in sydney.
shock he s feeling and talked abou about the attack earlier. the children are dying on the front line in the war against terror. the smaller the coffin, the heavier it is to carry and we ll be carrying smaller coffins today, more than a hundred small coffins we ll be carrying. the taliban, these extremists, they re terrorists. the biggest threat to the peace in this region, to peace in pakistan, to the existence of pakistan. and we have new information into cnn on this story, as well. pakistan not too long ago lifted moratorium on the death penalty for terrorism cases. let s bring in michelle stockman now because she s following developments from islamabad and can bring us up to date on exactly what s happening. michelle, what can you tell us about these latest developments on the country s death penalty? reporter: well, this shows the firm stance in response that