Anger against Taliban mounts after Pakistan school attack

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Outrage escalates across Pakistan as fresh details emerge about the Taliban's attack on a military-run school -- which left 148 people dead, mostly children.

The hardline Islamist militants say the massacre was revenge for a military operation that harmed their own families.

Outside Islamabad's Red Mosque -- which is widely perceived to be sympathetic towards the Taliban -- residents expressed their anger.

(SOUNDBITE) ( English) LOCAL HOUSEWIFE, FARAH MANSOOR, SAYING:

"I am here to protest and condemn the Taliban with the strongest feelings; that I hate Taliban, and I want them to get out of my country."

Human Rights Activist, Jibran Nasir, accused all political parties of protecting the Taliban.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST, JIBRAN NASIR, SAYING:

"...make the faces of these bloody people public, declare them as killers, make them afraid of their own bloody shadows that the entire street should know that ' you are the killer of o