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APS Peshawar martyrs remembered

Eight years on, wounds of school attack remain fresh

Our Correspondent December 15, 2022

Women mourn their relative Mohammed Ali Khan, 15, a student who was killed during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, at his house in Peshawar December 16, 2014. At least 132 students and nine staff members were killed on Tuesday after Taliban gunmen broke into a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and opened fire, witnesses said, in the bloodiest massacre the country has seen for years. REUTERS

HYDERABAD:

An event was held in memory of the martyrs of Army Public School Peshawar outside Hyderabad Press Club by Isthakam Pakistan Organisation on Wednesday.

People lit candles and offered prayers for the children, teachers and school staff martyred by terrorists in the horrific attack on December 16 2014.

Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry Senior Vice President Najamuddin Qureshi said that December 16 brings pangs of grief.

"Eight years have passed since the tragedy of APS Peshawar, but martyrs are still alive in our heart." Isthakam Pakistan Organisation Chairman Ahsan Naghar said on that bloodstained day of December 16, 2014, the Pakistani nation pledged to eliminate terrorists from the country.

The war against the perpetrators of the APS attack and those following their mindset continues.

Secretary of the organisation Naeem Akhtar Rizvi and Ahmad Ali Naghar said that this tragedy united the entire nation against the narrative of the terrorists.