BOLTON'S British Pakistani politicians have condemned a terrorist attack on a school in Pakistan that left 132 children dead.

Members of Tehreek-e-Taliban, the Pakistani Taliban, attacked an army school in the region of Peshawar on Tuesday, firing indiscriminately at pupils and setting off bombs.

Yasmin Qureshi, MP for Bolton South East, appeared on BBC Breakfast and ITV's Good Morning Britain to discuss the attacks, which she described as "horrifying".

She argues that the international community must now rally around Pakistan and support the government to prevent future attacks.

"I think the UK and the rest of the world needs to help Pakistan, in relation to law enforcement, providing humanitarian assistance," she said.

“Military intervention doesn’t solve anything.

“I entirely understand and respect people who see Tuesday’s attack as a local issue for the Pakistani government.

“However Pakistanis have been fighting the war on terror because of us.

"They have put themselves in that position of vulnerability on our behalf... since they supported America and the west they have now been targeted.

“14,000 people have died over the last 10 years in Pakistan as a consequence.

“At the end of the day, for our security we need the situation in the region to cool down and become calm. It is in our best interest.”

Sajjad Karim, a Greater Manchester MEP, described the attack as horrific during a speech to the European Parliament.

Speaking in the European Parliament, he said: “Many students and teachers at a school in Peshawar had their lives brutally ended by the acts of a group of deranged extremists.

“This indiscriminate and horrific attack by the Taliban is an act of pure barbarism.

“Yet again, the citizens of Pakistan saw true evil, the very worst of human nature.

“It now needs to respond with the best of Pakistan.

“To all those rescue workers, ambulances and army personnel who are helping to end this tragedy, I salute you.

“And my thoughts and prayers are with everyone caught up in this situation."