Tribute to my Martyr
My writing ability has always been weak. Today, despite this poor writing style, i am writing,because i want to ease the burden of my heart that is why I am daring. If not now, then when?
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16 Dec 2014, history will never forget this day, the day when every eye was moist, mourning in every home, every heart was filled with grievance . Days, weeks, months, and year passed but the wounds are still fresh.
This picture you can see, it is not the Army Public School's children, at first I thought they were our Martyr children. When i review this image again then i came to realized that this is my younger brother and his friends. The same style, same smile, the same shining eyes, and calm faces, for that moment, my heart leaped up and came into the throat.
That moment made me understand a feelings for a mother to her children. this moment made me understand that it was not just a death of school children, each child's parents have gone inside. It was a moment when i came to understand that the previous year would be equivalent of a century for their parents.
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their parents' eyes still waiting for them, Despite knowing that their children will never came again, their children voices will reverberate in the ears.
They are great parents, great children, great siblings, and great spouse and all family members who own this pain, Weak solace writers like me can not write about their greatness, This article is for my own satisfaction.
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What was 16 December Incident?
On 16 December 2014, seven terrorists who were affiliated with the Tehrik-e-Taliban attacked on the Army Public School (APS) located in the Pakistani northwestern, city of Pehsawer. one terrorist was from Chechen three are from Arab and two from Afghan. On 16 December 2014 they entered in the school and opened fire on school staff and school children.
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during this firing 132 school children got killed excluding 9 teachers and staff, age of these Children was between 6 to 19 years. After that a rescue operation was started by Pakistan Army (special forces) who rescued 960 people and killed all seven terrorists. This was the deadliest terrorist attack ever happen in Pakistan.
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Attack:
The attack commence at 10:30 A.M. when seven terrorists disguised entered in uniforms of the Pakistani force, they got entered in the school from the back of the school Army Public School is stationed at Warsak Road. Before entering in the school, the terrorists set fire to the van in which they had breeze in.
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The thug bearing automatic weapons, moved straight to the auditorium which located at the center of the complex and opened fire aimless on the children who were collected there for First aid training. As the terrorists opened fire, many of the people ran toward the two exit doors on the other side of the auditorium, but many of them were lay a patch down in the garden.
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Reports also come to light that pupils were forced to watch school teachers, including school principal Tahira Qazi, to be killed in front of them. Within 15 minutes, the SSG teams had riped the school and entered the in campus from two sides in their heavy bulletproof vehicles and trucks. Shortly, the SSG troop engaged the terrorists, block them from going after and killing other remaining school teaching staff and school students.
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The gunslinger moved to the administration block of the school and took pledges there. One of them was shot by the military troop near the auditorium, while the other six handled to make it to the administration block. Terrorists wanted to hit maximum casualties.
Casualties:
An expected total of 1,099 pupils and school teaching staff were present on the school boundary. Responding forces were successful in rescuing around 960, though 121 were injured. More than 150 people were killed including 134 school children and school staff members.
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Responsibility:
The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed duty for the attack, describing it as repayment for Operation Zarb-e-Azb, the Pakistani military's offensive in Waziristan that started in 2014.
TTP spokesman Muhammad Omar Khorasani sent a message that by phone call "we targeted the school because the Army targets our families. We want them to feel our pain.", "Our six fighters successfully entered the Army school and we are giving them instructions from outside," said Khorasani by phone.
Reactions:
The attack provoked widespread reactions in Pakistan, receiving accusation from public, government, political and religious organism, journalists, and other societies of Pakistani. Pakistani media reply strongly to the events, with major newspapers, news channels and many correspondent calling for renewed and strong action against militants, especially against TTP.
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International media's reaction towards the attack was also on a large scale, with many countries and international organizations knocking the attack and expressing their solace to the families of the victims.
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Aftermath:
Many international media constitution referred to the attack as Pakistan's "9/11. The popular assumption that was one of anger against the TTP soon after the attacks. Pakistan's Government and its Armed troop showed urgently shows the reaction to the incident.
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According to the Iranian-American scholar, Vali Nasr, "the Taliban may be trying to slacken the resolve of the military by suggesting that there could be a tremendous human costs to the military offensive and create public pressure on the military to back off from this offensive, but it may actually ricochet on them."
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Reopening Of School:
The Army Public School was resumed on 12 January 2015 under the defender of Pakistan's security forces.
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To uplift the mood and energy of the students and sufferer of school the chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif himself check in the morning assembly of the school and hard-shell them that no such incident will ever arise in Pakistan again they will break the backbone of Taliban.
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144 Stories: (144 Martyr)
These terrorists thinks that they dispatch 144 children including teachers, they waste144 lives, or they wind up 144 stories, these Martyr are still alive, they are breathing in our heart. Because Martyr never dies. Whenever i come across a tribute or any song or any post related to the brutal acts of 16th December, it gives me goosebumps all over. Send chills down the spine. Those 144, even though i dont know personally , but i will shed tears for them for, because they were innocent. They will always be a part of my life.This country’s ill-conceived journey on the road to extremism has been long, complex and multi-layered.
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Some Stories from those 144 Stories:
Sohail Aslam:
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Hamza Kamran:
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Hamayun Iqbal:
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Muhammad Tayyab Fawad:
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Arham Khan:
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Nangyal Tariq:
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Sahibzada Omer Khan:
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Muhammad Abdullah Zafar:
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Baqir Ali:
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Adil Shahzad:
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Ailian Fozan:
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Ali Abbas:
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Muhammad Haris Khan:
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Muhammad Hassan Khan:
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Tanveer Hussain:
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Atif Ur Rehman:
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Benish Umer: (Teacher)
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Tribute For Martyr:
Because you Live in our Hearts:
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Martyr never Dies
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We Are One as Nation:
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Poem:
"Heroes And Martyrs"
Amid the heat and the wrack
Hot boots invested and cracked
Poor candidates jacked into gray light
An ultra-violent call summoning both poet and thrall
Sweet catalyst for the acolytes.
Our heroes and martyrs
Present two points of view
Tell me which deity you're praying to.
Into a welter of night
Flack, rounds and roiling blight
Cracked vertebrates stacked by the wayside
An ultra-violent call summoning both poet and thrall
The inveterate blind seeking daylight.
Our heroes and martyrs
Present two points of view
Tell me which deity you're praying to.
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