Schools reopen, painfully, 1 month after massacre

Children streamed back to school across Pakistan on Monday in an anxious start to a new term following last month's massacre of 134 students at an army-run school in the volatile northwestern city of Peshawar.

Most schools across the country of 180 million had been shut until Monday for an extended winter break in the aftermath of the Dec 16 attack, when Taliban militants broke into Army Public School and methodically killed children.

Pakistan has long been used to almost daily militant attacks, but a coldblooded massacre of so many children has deeply scarred the nation, prompting criticism that the government was not doing enough to curb the insurgency.