Omer Munir
It was a bright, sunny and one of the cold morning in Peshawar, Pakistan. The day was Tuesday and the date, month and year is 16-12-2014 respectively. The birds was chirping on the branches of the trees and the cold breeze is blowing with the rising of the sunrise. People was in their daily life routine chores and doing preparation for going to their work place. The little angles was also get up early in the morning in order to make preparation for going towards their school, situated in Warsak road ,Peshawar. The innocent souls took breakfast and left their houses under the blessings and love of their parents in order to reached the school in time. Soon they reached the school safely and meet with their friends and class fellows and then going to attend the morning assembly, conducted 5 times in a week mornings at their school ,which is named as Army Public School, Warsak Road, Peshawar.
After the attending of the 16th December 2014, Tuesday’s morning assembly, all of the students of APS was going towards their concerned classes and started their daily studies routine. Each and every thing was under control. These innocent souls was very happy and fearless. A few moments later, the clock stuck 10.30 am and a total of 1,099 students and staff was present at APS and soon the hell came.
The happy and pleasant moments and nature of school situation converts into sadness and fear. The angles whom smiled a few moments before was scared after 10.30 am and tears and screams flows from their eyes and mouth. The basic reason behind the vanishing of these children innocent and precious smile is the terrorist attack on the school by the militants of Tahrik Taliban Pakistan TTP, whom entered into the school just like storm and killing each and every person and especially children whom comes into their way.
The Taliban’s with in plenty of number came to the school with the agenda of killing the young and innocent APSACIANS in order to took revenge of their colleagues who was killed in the Pakistan Army conducted operation Zarb ay Azab and this operation was conducted by the Pak Army in North Waziristan in summer 2014 in order to clear the Pakistan land from terrorists and their terrorist activities. These Taliban’s was not considered as a human beings .they was considered as wild animals ,who brutally killed innocent children by shooting the bullets in their bodies especially in their heads and face.
The situation of APS Peshawar was completely tragic and serious .The blood was sprinkled and flown all over the walls, floors, books and auditoriums of the school. The school building was badly damaged with the stigmas of bullet shells and holes, destroyed classrooms, explosive walls and more important, the school building was white washed with the precious blood stinks of innocent souls who embraced shahadat in this cruel terrorist attack by the coward Taliban’s.
After the 15 minutes of this brutal act, our proud and brave army take control of the school and killed each and every person whom was presented at the school in the dress of wild animal and soon these wild animals was reached towards the hell in the encounter against our army. Unfortunately our army was failed in saving the lives of the 144 innocent APSACIANS whom got martyred in this attack due to the bullets shoots inserted in their heads and faces by Taliban’s guns and rifles.
The brave principal of the school Tahira Qazi, also embraced shahadat in this attack. She tries her level best in order to save little lives but losing her own life in defending the lives of the children. On the other hand, when the parents of these children heard the terror attack news, they rushed towards the terror site immediately and was worried and fearful about the safety and lives of their children. Soon the school was cleared from the terrorists and the school was open for the parents for identifying the pieces and flowers of their hearts. The wounded children was later shifted to the hospitals and the parents of the killing children cried ,screamed and weep and running in and out of the school in order to searched their loved ones, who lay down in some location of school premises under the heap of the innocent children dead bodies. The blood of these children was sprinkled and lay everywhere on the school premises floors.
Soon after the attack, the media channels both national and international rushed towards the site and informing the masses through their reporting. The Prime Minister ,President, and other political as well as great personalities of Pakistan and whole world pays great tribute to these innocent souls who sacrificed their today for our better tomorrow through their condolence messages and condemns the terrorist attack.
These children were later buried to the respective graveyards with great respect, tribute and tears. Each and every year on 16th December, the nation remembers these APSACIANS through tableaus, debates songs, littering the candles and lights and create the social media contents in the living memory of these angles.
These angles are our real heroes ,these heroes are not die, they are still alive in our hearts and always alive till the end of this world, because these angles are those souls who sacrifices their lives and today for the better tomorrow of Pakistani nation. These angles are gone but never forgotten.
