Pakistan Faces Resurgance of Terrorism NYT | Top Stories Zia ur-Rehman 21 December 2024 at 13:01 Political instability, dwindling public support and economic constraints are eroding the costly gains that the country made in combating militancy after a ghastly school attack in 2014. © Arshad Arbab/EPA, via ShutterstockShagufta Tahir, the mother of Muhammad Shaheer Khan, one of the students killed in a militant attack on a school in December 2014 in Peshawar, Pakistan.