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In this file photo, a student points out the picture of his friend, who was killed in the militant attack, outside the Army Public School, Peshawar in 2014. INP
As the country marked the sixth anniversary of the Peshawar Army Public School (APS) carnage on Wednesday, politicians – both from government and opposition – paid homage to the families that suffered in the heinous 2016 attack in which 131 school children and 10 others lost their lives.
The attack had shocked the entire nation as terrorists stormed inside the school and fired at children who were attending classes at the time.
Recalling the incident, President Dr Arif Alvi said it had brought the nation to tears. These flowers laid their lives & brought focus of the nation to suppress terrorism with all its might. I thank them, he said.
Mushaal pays glowing tributes to APS martyrs
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Mushaal Hussein Mallick, the Chairperson of Peace and Culture Organisation, has paid glowing tributes to the martyrs of Peshawar’s Army Public School (APS) and said that no one can better understand and feel the pain and agony of the parents of the martyred than Kashmiri people.
Mushaal said this in her message on the ‘Black Day’ on Wednesday to mark the sixth anniversary of the terror attack at the APS in Peshawar that martyred 148 people, making it the deadliest act of terrorism in Pakistan’s history.
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Addressing media at the inauguration ceremony of Peshawar’s Institute of Cardiology, he said that his government’s aim was to ensure the impoverished received the best care at state-run hospitals. Referring to a planned protest against the Medical Teaching Institution Ordinance by employees of Islamabad’s Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, the prime minister said this was a “strike against hospital reforms.” Addressing the detractors, he said these “reforms” would bring government hospitals on par with private
APS attack showed terrorists Pakistan will fight terrorism together: PM
He expressed solidarity with martyrs families SAMAA | Web desk - Posted: Dec 16, 2020 | Last Updated: 4 months ago SAMAA | Web desk Posted: Dec 16, 2020 | Last Updated: 4 months ago
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The attack on Peshawar s Army Public School six years ago showed terrorists that Pakistan will fight terrorism together as a nation, Prime Minister Imran Khan said.
In a visit to Peshawar on Wednesday which marked six years of the attack, the premier expressed solidarity with the martyrs of APS and their families.
Over 140 children and school staffers were gunned down in an attack on an army-run school in Peshawar on December 16, 2014. The attack was claimed by the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.