Pakistan kills 77 in response to massacre

Pakistani jets and ground forces have killed at least 77 militants in a north-western tribal region near the border with Afghanistan, just days after Taliban fighters killed 148 people in a school massacre.

The violence at a school in Pakistan’s north-west earlier this week stunned the country and brought cries for retribution.

In the wake of the mass killing the military has struck targets in the Khyber tribal region and approved the death penalty for six convicted terrorists.