It was akin to an end of term parents day in schools , except that children whose families received the certificated of merit were not there.: all the 175 of them were dead.
In the last days of December 2006, the local Taliban in South Waziristan Agencies invited the families of the 'Jihadi' fighters who were killed in action in Afghanistan and awarded the certificated of martyrdom to the families of the 175 fighters from the tribal areas.
Fifty of the them, sources say, were suicide bombers while the rest were killed in battles with the NATO troops and the Afghan National Army.
Source : The Herald , March 2007(Dawn Group, Pakistan)