“I Shall Rise & Shine” – Courageous students return to terror-hit Army Public School in Peshawar PESHAWAR (Web Desk / AFP) - Educational institutes across Pakistan including the military-run school that was attacked by Taliban militants in Peshawar reopened on Monday. Defiant children in green uniforms and their families returned to the Army Public School in Peshawar where Army Chief General Raheel Sharif welcomed them. The school held a ceremony to remember the victims of the terrorist attack but classes were not expected to start until later this week. Zahid Ayub, 16, who sustained minor wounds, said: I am not scared, no force can stop me from going to attend my school, I will go and will tell the attackers, we are not afraid of you. For 16-year-old Shahrukh Khan, who was shot in both legs while pretending to play dead in his school s auditorium, going back was traumatic. I have lost 30 of my friends, how I will sit in the empty class, how I will look to their empty benches, he told AFP before the school reopened. At least 20 soldiers were seen at the main entry point of the Army Public School, with an airport-style security gate installed at the front. Elevated boundary walls with steel wire fencing have been put in place around Peshawar and in schools throughout the rest of the country. The government has ordered institutions to ensure protection of the school children and audits have been carried out on hundreds of schools since 16 December. On December 16, seven heavily armed terrorists entered the Army Public School and went from class to class, killing 141 people - 132 of them children - and injuring more than 120. All seven attackers were killed. The school killings were condemned across the world.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:34:03 +0000
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