New Delhi: Education campaigner and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai yesterday condemned the attack on school children in Pakistan as a "senseless and cold-blooded act of terror".
"I am heartbroken by this senseless and cold-blooded act of terror in Peshawar. I condemn these atrocious and cowardly acts, and stand united with the government and armed forces of Pakistan," Malala said in a tweet post.
"Innocent children in their school have no place in horror such as this," she added.
Around 130 children were killed in the attack on Army Public School in Peshawar Tuesday.
The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility and called it a revenge attack for the army operations in North Waziristan.
Malala is herself a survivor of a similar attack when she was shot in the head by the Taliban in her native Pakistan two years ago. She was attacked for taking up the cudgels for girls' right to education.
The 17-year-old activist, who now lives in Britain, was awarded the Nobel peace prize this year for her global campaign on education.
