APS survivor becomes member of British Youth Parliament

Hit by eight bullets, Waleed remained unconscious for eight days

PESHAWAR:

Waleed Khan, a student of Army Public School Peshawar, who received eight bullets and underwent 12 surgeries subsequently, has been elected the member of Youth Parliament in the United Kingdom, thus becoming a role model for others.

He had been left badly injured in the attack.

Six years down the lane, he still remembers those fateful days.

Waleed had been hit on face by six bullets, disfiguring him beyond recognition and smashing his jaws. He was unable to close his mouth due to a fractured jaw. Even his parents were unable to recognize the class 9 student despite searching the hospital for hours and hours where he was lying unconscious in an isolated corner attended silently by the doctors and paramedics.

His face was completely covered in bandages and he was unconscious.

“When my father reached the hospital and started searching for me among the dead and injured he found me nowhere. He was shocked and exhausted at the same time.

A doctor in the end told him that a child was lying there in one coroner in a badly injured condition but even then he was unable to recognize me.

I was unconscious for eight days and after gaining my senses when my mother reached the hospital and called my childhood nickname I responded to it faintly and they were able to find me eight days after the attack,” he recalled that tragic day.

Waleed Khan was sent to UK for plastic surgeries where he underwent six major face surgeries and another six other surgeries.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 17^th, 2020.