Qazi Mizan: A wife who loses her husband is called a widow, a husband who loses his wife is called a widower, a child who loses its parents is called an orphan but there is no word for a parent who loses their child! That is so dreadful.
The eighth anniversary of the Army Public School carnage that claimed the lives of 147 persons, including 132 children, is being observed.
The heartbreaking incident occurred on Dec 16, 2014. The bloodshed of innocent souls shook the whole world. The martyrs included 132 students, including a principal and 16 staff members. Six years later, the pain of the bereaved is still fresh.
The parents of the martyrs could not escape the emotional effects of the heartbreaking incident. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan group had claimed the attack as vengeance which provoked the government to declare a maximum capacity war against all terrorist outfits. A 20-point National Action Plan was launched after the APS attack. Military courts were established afterward, now all six militants who were involved in the attack have been executed. The military courts, established soon after the attack, awarded death sentences to at least 310 militants and 56 of them have been executed so far.
“Scars of the martyrdom of innocent schoolchildren of APS left on the heart and soul are hard to erase, a pain that time cannot heal.
A day that can never be forgotten a tragedy so intense it shook the nation to its core the APS terror attack that took away the lives of so many innocent children along with their teachers.
