Bollywood condemns the Taliban attack in Peshawar

Bollywood celebrities expressed shock, disbelief and anguish over the Taliban attack on a school in Pakistan's Peshawar city, killing many children among others.

"Monstrous", "barbarism", "Ultimate form of Cowardice", "death of humanity", "Millions of year of evolution- FOR THIS? Kamaal hai!", "Disgusting and heart breaking", "black day for humanity" etc are some of the words and thoughts that came out via tweets from B-Town as well as Pak celebrities.

Amitabh Bachchan: When innocence is silenced...There can be just silence.

Shah Rukh Khan: The soul is healed by being with children. Extreme anger & disgust for all those who took our children, our future, our healers away.

Aamir Khan: Just heard about the innocent children being killed in Peshawar. I'm devastated.

Shekhar Kapur: Killings of innocent children is not justified in any religion or culture. It's an act by depraved desperate and Godless men #PeshawarAttack

Akshay Kumar: Feeling numb hearing about d terrorist attack on innocent children in #Peshawar! May God give strength to the victims families. RIP humanity

Javed Akhtar: 104 innocent children are killed by Talibans In Peshawar. A black day for humanity.

Anupam Kher: Today the world is so sad. Those children deserved a long & happy life. #SAD

Shahid Kapoor: Black day. Innocence lost. Where is humanity heading. No religion no God could ever want this. Peshawar. Prayers. Shock.

Vivek Oberoi: *Killing innocent unarmed school children? This is not war, this is not -#*jihad, this is not -#Islam! This is purely inhuman! -#PeshawarAttack

Rajat Kapoor: Millions of year of evolution- FOR THIS? Kamaal hai!

Riteish Deshmukh: Death of Humanity - Wake up World - it's not their issue -it's our issue - we need to stand up.#PeshawarAttack

Anushka Sharma: This is the cruellest most inhuman cowardice act. It pains me so much. Prayers & strength with the families of the innocent kids killed.

Sonu Nigam: Morning. New agendas. New dreams. World moves on. How sad. But 4 sm, world ended yesterday. Now they shall live with d corpse of their life.

Alia Bhatt: No such thing as humanity. Its appalling to even think that we are capable of being so monstrous and so majorly MESSED UP!!!#PeshawarAttack

Varun Dhawan: Darkest day of the human race. No RELIGION tells you to kill children. cant believe someone is capable of this monstrosity#PeshawarAttack

Rannvijay Singha: Can't imagine what the parents are going through, they just sent their kids to school...what wrong can children do? so angry.. #PeshawarAttack

Priyanka Chopra: Appalling! What kind of wimps hurt kids! I send out a prayer. Please god...in whichever form and whatever name. Pls teach your children to value human life. I pray for peace. #Peshawar

Karan Johar: The Peshawar killing is just heartbreaking...the death of humanity on every level....helplessness is the only feeling.

R. Madhavan: Ohhhhhh...No no no. Please not children in schools. God this is not right. My heart and prayers go out to the children and families in Peshawar. Who are these people actually. Where are they from, their families, their upbringing, their faces, what can drive them to kill children.

Raveena Tandon: Which religion in the name of God allows this? Any parents nightmare #griefbeyondcompare The horror the pain! Oh god you are being questioned now as the world sheds tears for those innocent souls! Lil Angels of the future!

Farhan Akhtar: My heart has broken. The world failed those children in Peshawar ... It's a sad sad day.

Arjun Kapoor: Just reading about Peshawar never felt more helpless...my prayers with everyone in Peshawar all the children and parents...sad sad day.

Vishal Dadlani: This happens when you mix religion and politics. It's a sad, sick world, where kids are killed in the name of God and politics. #Peshawar

Salim Merchant: Very disturbed about the terrorist attack in Peshawar army school. 21 kids lose their lives and many injured. When will this stuff stop?

Sophie Choudry: Innocent kids are victims and yet again religion the sick excuse. Heartbroken and ashamed that this is the world we live in! #PeshawarAttack

Shekhar Ravjiani: My heart goes out to the innocent souls that lose their lives everyday to acts of terror. Pray that humanity prevails someday.

Jackky Bhagnani: It's shameful that terrorists are using innocent children to get their demand fulfilled. I pray for the safety of all the children.

Sonu Sood: How can anyone kill 100 innocent students? Can't be humans. My heart goes to the parents of those innocent Angels..#PeshawarAttack.

Milap Zaveri: They say God lives in every child. These Taliban bastards have killed God by killing these children. Disgusting and heart breaking.

Nimrat Kaur: Don't have the courage to put the news on ... Reading about the children of Peshawar is heart wrenching enough . No words at all.

Papon Angaraag: Killing School Kids?!! Where r we heading now?!Who instigates such cowardly acts! The keepers of religion & politics? All for power?#Peshawar

Rahul Bose: Everyday reveals a new face of evil. Courage, caring, hope, justice & love are never to be lost. We need them now more than ever. #Peshawar.

Sonam Kapoor: What a senseless unspeakable act. The world is filled with monsters. #Peshawar #PakSchoolSiege #PeshawarAttack

Kunal Kohli: Sad black day for humanity in Peshawar.

Sonu Nigam: Shocked to know what's happened in Peshawar.. Gosh.. No access to TV. Came on Twitter for d promised chat for The Music Room.

Sonakshi Sinha: Oh god! What's happening in this world. Times like these make you question humanity. Everyone please pray for whats happening in #Peshawar.

Reema Kagti: The attack on school kids is just horrific. Sad sad day. RIP innocent children let down by a senseless, violent world.

Shafqat Amanat Ali: Lady Reading Hospital in #Peshawar appealing for blood donation. Extreme shortage reported. Friends in #Peshawar please respond to this call.

Veena Malik Khan: I strongly condemned horrific attack of utter barbarism on innocent school children...shocked and Heartbroken!

Ali Zafar: This is sad. Real sad! Children:(

Adnan Sami: My heart weeps for the massacre & loss of the innocent angelic lives of the School Children in Peshawar today...This is the Ultimate form of Cowardice & Barbarism which no dictionary in the world can define. May Allah bless the souls of these beautiful children and may He give strength to their families. Today we all bleed with them.