Bereaved family leads protest in Daska

Published December 21, 2014
Injured student of Army Public School and College, Mehtab (on wheelchair), survivor Aftab (L) and father of martyred student Khushnood (R) take part in rally against TTP’s barbaric terrorist attack on Army Public School & College Peshawar.— INP
Injured student of Army Public School and College, Mehtab (on wheelchair), survivor Aftab (L) and father of martyred student Khushnood (R) take part in rally against TTP’s barbaric terrorist attack on Army Public School & College Peshawar.— INP

SIALKOT: The family of a victim of the Peshawar school tragedy led an anti-terrorism rally in Daska, Sialkot district, on Saturday.

Zeb Khan, a serving Subedar in the Army, had got three sons enrolled in the Army Public School. One of them lost his life in the monstrous strike on Dec 16 while another was injured. The third remained out of harm’s way.

The people of Daska lined the streets of the town in honour of the family when it arrived at the assistant commissioner’s office to attend a ceremony.

Read: Militant siege of Peshawar school ends, 141 killed

Aftab Zeb, the boy who rema­ined unharmed, recou­nted his harrowing ordeal and narrow escape. “Bodies started falling over me. I played dead and the ruse mercifully worked,” he said.

Aftab’s elder brother, Mehtab Zeb, came to the ceremony in wheelchair.

The assistant commissioner gave a cheque to Subedar Zeb Khan as part of the compensation annou­nced by the government.

In Pasrur, another family which lost a son in the tragedy received a cheque.

Published in Dawn, December 21st, 2014

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