Young Khola Altaf is understood to have been on only her second day at the school's kindergarten when terrorists stormed the Army Public School in Peshawar and launched a three-hour bloodshed.

The little girl was reportedly shot at point blank range - despite alleged instructions from Taliban commanders not to kill 'small children'. 

Yesterday, in stirring scenes, hundreds of mourners lined the street at her home in Mansehra to pay their respects to the youngest victim of Tuesday's massacre. 

The details come as it emerged that the gunmen who carried out the bloody attack had contacted their commanders to ask: 'We have killed all the children, now what do we do?'.

Having burst in using machine guns and rocket launchers, the six men were instructed to await the arrival of soldiers before detonating their suicide vests, according to a security official citing unspecified intelligence gathered on site.

It also emerged today that sixteen prominent commanders from different wings of the Pakistani Taliban were involved in organising the attack, with another senior militant named Umar Adizai - also known as Umar Naray and Umar Khalifa - acting as the six killers' overall 'handler'.

The hunt is now on for the 17 men, all of whom have been named, with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif moving to end the moratorium on executing those convicted of terrorism - effectively signing the death warrant for the savage Peshawar commanders should they be caught.

Following Tuesday's massacre, the Pakistani military carried out 20 airstrikes in a remote Taliban stronghold in the north west of the country, killing at least 57 militants.   

(dailymail.co.uk)