And we are targeted once again, this time even worse… Army Public School Peshawar, School Kids… if my memory serves me right, I saw school as paradise perhaps a second home… even in the wildest imagination, i would have never associated terror with school, not any more.
I can’t even absorb the idea of being insecure in your very own school, from my times of schooling… all I know is hundreds of children studying, paying and spending most of their day there WITHOUT any terror, who could even think that she is NOT secure in her own school. Isn’t school supposed to be the place to learn right and wrong, aren’t schools there to give us well learned lives. And we.. we lost hundreds of lives in school… would mothers be comfortable sending their children to schools anymore, for it could be theirs…
The impact of this incident is confusing… I don’t know whether I’m upset, shocked, depressed or rather broken… for kids are the generations and hopes of future, Shame on them for killing whose innocent lives, heart-breaking is the fact that they asked those innocents to recite Kalma before killing them brutally, indiscriminately, I so hope that they knew the meaning of my pure Kalma, my beautiful and peaceful religion, this day would have never come… but very definitely terrorism has no religion…
I dread even thinking about those innocent children, teachers, and families and moreover mothers, who sent their kids to study and they never came back. It’s frustrating how extremism has taken over the humanity, and the worst analogy of it could be religion.
Despite all of this, there is something more that I witnessed post this ruthless incident that is… Humanity as an aftermath of Inhumanity, I saw social media turning black as a silent protest, I saw people from all over the world, sending peace messages to us, telling us that we are not alone to flight this viciousness, I read on social media “Dear Pakistanis its not only the sorrow of you people. Being your twin India too shares your grief. Those children are ours too. A border can’t separate us from our own people. Long live our brotherhood”. I also read “The ‘Peshawar tragedy’ has shattered the whole of humanity.. Words can’t do justice to the immense grief and sorrow felt here in the UK. Our thoughts and prayers are with you – AA”. And there are many more… People of all sorts continued to be with us; undoubtedly I saw trepidation to fight the terrorism… Unity, hope and passion for better Pakistan, or rather a better world… I have never heard of such devastating incident in my life, and therefore never saw I have seen this unity, power of humanity.
On the other hand, I also feel obliged to those army mans who got the control of building in no time, yes indeed there is incomparable loss of many lives but at the very time we have also saved 900 of them, I get Goosebumps when I think of how it would have been, if army wasn’t able to control the affected area…I have no words to explain the ridicule we would have been through. I hope, and only hope that this incident serves as a example that Pakistan undeniably is a strong nation and will flight all the guns.
It is indeed the worst incident in the history of Pakistan… this day will remain as black day for lives to come… Surely there will be time when Mothers will raise their children in peace and nowhere would it be the act of bravery to attend school…
Amity to all who lost their loved ones, for we cannot even feel a percent of the pain… May you find Peace and Strength…
