Five men arrested over school massacre

Five Pakistani men have been arrested in Afghanistan in connection with the Taliban massacre of 134 schoolchildren in the Pakistani city of Peshawar last month, officials from both countries said yesterday.

The five were detained last week after Pakistan sent a list of suspects to security services in the neighbouring nation.

Taliban gunmen opened fire in the military-run school on December 16, killing nine staff and the students, many of them the children of army personnel, in the country’s bloodiest massacre in years.