
There will be families of thousands of young Pakistanis who are studying today in America who will have seen the report and wondered at the safety of their children, of their siblings — and they are right to wonder. Some will have sent their children to the US in the belief that it is a safer place than Pakistan, that the education is of a better quality and they will return home the better for their experience. The vast majority will, but the tragic reality is that American schools are no safer than Pakistani schools, and school shootings in Pakistan are a rarity but almost commonplace in America.
The State of Texas has some of the most lax gun laws in the entire US. The guns that the teenage shooter used belonged to his father. He is white and to judge from his (now taken down) Facebook pages had a close interest in neo-Nazism and had made no secret of his desire to kill people. He did just that. We have nothing to offer America and Sabika Sheikh died in the flower of her youth. We offer our sincere condolences to her family.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 20th, 2018.
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