Now I am almost certain that Govt itself was behind all this. Everything something big starts to happen, another big bang occurs to distract the awam. Lal masjid happened when Musharraf's regime was threatened. BeNazir assassinated when she came back, putting Zardari in charge (I am sure Zardari himself had her removed to come forward). And now this happens.
Whoever got the most benefit out of this attack, is the biggest suspect. And everything after this incident is going in Govts favour. Dharnas called off, all blame/hate going to KPK Administration (when govt itself didn't release any funds for NACTA because Metro was more important), public attention diverted, gained public trust by opening Saza-e-Maut (when chances are high that it's not gonna happen in practice) ... Whoever masterminded this, should be saluted for being a perfect psychopath. We all saw how Shareef do business. Killing in Faisalabad, model town etc ... They can kill people by using goons, they can very well kill children as well if it means gaining control of Riyasat.
What?? Too far fetched? Whenever there are Govts involved, these crimes are nothing biggie for them. Remember that always.
for once I have to disagree with you here, I think what must be explained is how hard is it to digest the incident that happen in Peshawar, I am no critic nor I have some hawk eye on everything what is happening but there was 1 think which was pending since Raheel Shareef came back from US and it was meeting with PM, now meeting PM doesnt mean to inform him how was his vacations to US it was more of a strategic decision which was to be communicated by raheel shareef to PM that how you should handle it or you are fail this is how you have to leave and never look back.
what ever happen in Peshawar made Raheel Shareef and establishment angry he flew straight to kandhar and jabbed the Army chief and president of Afghanistan demanded to shut down this militant movements and handover TTIP leader " Mulla Radio" with some timelines "unknown to us" now he head back to Pakistan, met the PM and demanded to stabilize the political uncertainty at any cost or get a kick on ur butt again and remove sanction over death sentence immediately ( I am sure most of us know what and how long it take to make, amend the law) but that happened in like 30 min after Raheel Shareef meeting with PM ( imagine the pressure nawaz got there ) on otherside there are more than 20 thousand prisoners waiting for their turn to get hang out of which not more than 1300 are TIP members the rest are political thugs, jiyalay of PPP.. gullu butts of PMLN and Sathi bhai of MQM think of the pressure he's getting from these sides.
As you said about benefit, there is no benefit for nawaz and family here, he was in immense pressure due to Army chief not meeting him after returning from US and Imran khan dharna movement for rigged election, but right now he's like a water bubble in the air right now, you didnt noticed Imran came in APC with Corps commander Peshawar Hidayatur Rehman this indicates even Imran was forced to sit in APC, we have seen the propaganda recently when PMLN contact Army cheif to play solicitor role .. but this shows otherwise army has the control now and politicians will act as puppet till the dust settle down now.
remember there are only 2 bodies than can dissolve the assembly and make interim governance to make fair elections 1 .. judicial commission ( which they already rejected due to 52-B2 act) now remains Army so this is evident... there is a third way that they go in assembly party stands againt PMLN and impeach to disolve the assembly but that will be a mess and every danm politician in PPPP, MQM and JUI etc are haramkhoor to the core so it aint gona be easy nor I foresee it happening here.
we as a group of mercenaries (not Nation) required this kick one way or another to reset the clock, and if you poke in history of Pakistan only Army has the reset button (sm1)
*** I am not good at all on conveying my point of view so my apologies ***