There is some uncertainty over the exact number of people killed in Peshawar. News agencies - including Reuters, AFP and AP - say the total was 148. But others, including the BBC, are sticking with the number given earlier by the military - 141. The discrepancy may be down to the inclusion of the seven dead attackers in the total.

This leads us to another discrepancy. While the Pakistani army says it killed seven attackers, the Taliban says six members took part in the assault. However, the image of the attackers released by the militants does show seven people.

Shahid Afridi
Pakistan cricketer

tweets, external: Can't get out of today's tragic trauma pls u all pray for all those affected families. We are one Nation, Allah swt is with us.

emails: I work at the headquarters of the country's largest telecom company. We just had a short combined prayer for the victims of the Peshawar attack in our courtyard in which about 200 people took part. Many women were crying and the mood was sombre. It has been a quiet and depressed day at the office and the desolate expressions on everyone's face tell the story. Some vigils are being planned in part of the city and I'm planning to visit them.

Inside the army-run school, bullet holes surround a display celebrating Pakistan's army.

Image source, AFP

Veteran Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai discussed Pakistan's reaction to the attack with the BBC earlier.

"I think nobody now talks about having any negotiations with Taliban, the only comment I have is that the Pakistani state should go after them," he said.

"There should be no discrimination and I heard women saying that these people should be given exemplary punishment. So I think the mood has changed. It's a turning point now in Pakistan."

Stewart Wood
Labour Peer

tweets:, external Very powerful remarks by [UK Prime Minister David Cameron] on the "massacre of the innocents" in Peshawar at the start of #PMQs.

More from that news conference with Prime Minister Sharif. "There is no precedent for this attack in the history of Pakistan," he told reporters.

"The fight against terrorism and extremism is our own fight. There is no good or bad Taliban."

Pakistan's leaders have been accused of using some elements of the Taliban to serve their regional aims - a charge they have denied.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has promised to improve security and tackle terrorism. He was speaking to reporters in Peshawar.

Meanwhile, the number of people killed in Pakistan's bloodiest Taliban attack has now risen to 148.

Dawood Ibrahim would have been at school yesterday - if he had managed to wake up on time, reports the Express Tribune newspaper, external. But the 15-year-old missed his alarm. Today, he is the sole survivor from his ninth-grade class.

"Dawood isn't talking to anyone, he isn't talking at all," his brother, Sufyan Ibrahim, told the newspaper. "He just attended funerals the entire day."

More images from inside the school, a day after the attack. Here, Pakistani soldiers escort journalists on the premises.

Image source, EPA

Rahim shared his photo with his nephew, whom he said had been rescued by his teachers from the school on Tuesday.

Image source, Rahim Khan

The number of people killed in the Peshawar attack has gone up to 144, according to Pakistani newspaper Express Tribune, external.

The Pakistani Taliban have also released a photograph that they say shows the fighters who stormed the school on Tuesday.

Image source, AP

Haroon Rashid
BBC News, Pakistan

The new Taliban statement also says the security agencies had detained militants' relatives and killed them in staged encounters. It says 600 people have been killed in this way this year - a claim that could not be independently verified.

Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurasani said the school was targeted because it was where children of army men were studying. He also warned civilians to avoid any links with security agencies. The statement showed no remorse for the deaths of young children.

Haroon Rashid
BBC News, Pakistan

Mohammad Khurasani, the spokesman for the banned Pakistani Taliban, says six of its fighters attacked the army-run school in Peshawar. In an emailed message, he says the operation was led by Umer Mansoor, a Taliban military chief in the Dara Adam Khel region.

The statement says Umer Mansoor remained in touch with the assailants throughout the attack. It says the Pakistan military has been waging a war for the last six years against the people of the tribal regions and Malakand division.

Across Peshawar, parents have been burying their children. Akhtar Hussain wept as he buried his 14-year-old son, Fahad.

"They finished in minutes what I had lived my whole life for, my son,'' the Associated Press news agency quotes him as saying. "That innocent one is now gone in the grave, and I can't wait to join him, I can't live anymore."

According to the agency, Mr Hussain had worked for years in Dubai so that he could support his children.

Image source, EPA

The school was badly damaged in the militant assault and subsequent siege by the security forces. Here is a short video clip of the BBC's Mishal Husain, on a tour of the building with a Pakistani army officer.

Peter Bouckaert
Director at Human Rights Watch

tweets:, external Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif just lifted death penalty moratorium following Taliban Peshawar school attack, populist move but not a solution.

Asad Liaqat, external, a doctoral student at Harvard University, writes for Pakistani newspaper Dawn, external, about his alma mater - the Army Public School in Peshawar. The article contains several pictures of the school in happier times.

"There would be about 10-15 people, and my Islamiat [religious studies] teacher was usually one of them," he writes.

"His head was always tilted slightly to the left. For him, probably a marker of added involvement and concentration in the prayer... I wonder if he still taught at the school. I wonder if he still tilted his head to the left when he prayed. I wonder if the tilt saved his life today. I wonder if the lack of a tilt cost the others on the prayer mats their lives."

Image source, AFP

Ros Atkins
BBC Outside Source

tweets:, external Few know Pakistan like Aamer Ahmed Khan, head of @BBCUrdu, external. He'll be live on @BBCOS, external to take questions about the #PeshawarAttack. What would you ask?