(The Washington Post) – After days of cold, a fitful sunlight emerged above the foothills of the Hindu Kush and schoolchildren in Peshawar took to the playground to play cricket and soccer. Zeeshan Jehangir, 14, and his two best friends were not among them. The three — dressed in maroon-and-gray school uniforms — huddled on the stairs and planned out how it would be when the gunmen came for them.
