After a deadly attack on a school in Peshawar on Tuesday, the Pakistan Army dealt a revenge blow on the Taliban. The school attack killed 146 people, and most of them were students.

The Taliban claimed that their attack on the school was a revenge hit for an attack the Pakistan army made on them this past June. When the terrorists went to the school, they carried a “hit list” and were seeking out the children of army soldiers.

On Wednesday, some of the military and intelligence leaders traveled to Afghanistan in order to seek their cooperation to fight the Taliban. This was necessary because it was believed that the Taliban fighters that committed the atrocities at Peshawar lived in Afghanistan and came across the border for their terrible act. At the same time, Pakistan also appealed to the US for help fighting the Taliban.

In the past, Pakistan had partly protected the Taliban, and this led to a long rift between the two countries. Part of their talks with Afghanistan had to deal with distinguishing between a “good” and a “bad” Taliban. Now they are all considered terrorists and need to be removed.

On Thursday and Friday, Pakistan took its first action against the Taliban within their own country. This involved both airstrikes and ground offensives in tribal regions. In those attacks, there were at least 119 militants killed.

Later, two prisoners who had already been convicted of terrorist crimes were hanged. This was the first executions in Pakistan for about six years.

Four arrests were made on Friday of suspects in the school incident. One of those who were arrested was a woman. She apparently used a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card, or the attackers used her card, because it was found at the school. She lived about 480 miles south of the school.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, strongly condemned the attack and stated that they would clean the area of terrorism. He emphasized that this meant not only removing all terrorism from Pakistan, but also from Afghanistan and the entire region.

The young woman from Pakistan who had just won a Nobel prize, Malala Yousafzai, decried the terrorist act at Peshawar. She was also shot by the Taliban because they oppose the teaching of girls. In an odd sense of morality, even some of the Taliban members in Afghanistan called the act totally “un-Islamic.”

On late Thursday, a U.S. drone made a strike near the city of Nazyan in Afghanistan. It is believed to be an area where many leaders of the Pakistani Taliban live, including the chief commander, Maulana Fazlullah. The mission may have been coordinated with Pakistan, and five suspected militants were killed.

Since the attack on the school, up to 150 militants have been killed. This includes totals from both air and ground strikes.

Efforts have definitely been stepped up to remove terrorists from the land of Pakistan. The chief of the army in Pakistan personally went to the border area on Friday to oversee the action against the terrorists. They are now actively seeking them out wherever they are.

The attitude of the people of Pakistan after the Peshawar killings is that of strong animosity toward the Taliban. The courts are reviewing hundreds of cases of prisoners, who have been convicted of terrorist acts within the past decade and are considering executing them. The army chief has already signed death warrants for six men who are considered hard-core terrorists.