david waker 
Analysts: Afghan Taliban do little to stop Pakistan fighters
Cake and invite friends to his home in Pakistan City Peshawar. They sang happy birthday to his son, even lit candles. But it’s birthday without a birthday.
His son, Asfand Khan, was December 15, 2014 when gunmen went berserk through state schools managed by military in Peshawar killed 150 people, most of them students, some Semahes 5. Asfand was shot three times in the middle.
The attackers were Pakistan Taliban, who had once again showed off their attacks, seemed brave with the return of the Afghan Taliban to power in Kabul.
In the last week of December, they killed eight Pakistani army personnel in half a dozen attacks and counterattacks, all in the northwest of the country. Two other Pakistani soldiers were killed in the attack on Taliban posts at the end of Wednesday night.
