{"id":8414,"date":"2015-01-12T11:38:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T11:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/01\/12\/a-painful-return\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:26:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:26:26","slug":"a-painful-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/12\/a-painful-return\/","title":{"rendered":"A Painful Return"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Children in Peshawar Go Back to School that Experienced Deadly Shooting<\/h3>\n

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\nThe Pakistani school where a deadly shooting took place sees pupils returning with shaken parents. It was a terrorist attack that killed 150 children in the city of Peshawar, seven Taliban militants were responsible for the murders that shocked a nation. Stricter security was implemented when students returned, as well as at schools around the country since the attack. <\/p>\n


\nParents are still reeling from the fateful day, father Abid Ali Shah is still grieving over the death of his wife who was killed in the school. He gets his sons ready for school, a task his wife used to handle, and comments on the drastic change in their lives, \u201cA hollowness in my life is getting greater. I am missing my wife. Everything is ruined here, everything.\u201d Both of Shah\u2019s sons were in the midst of the shooting, his youngest son was shot in the head but survived as militants believed him to be dead. <\/p>\n


\nThe eldest son Sitwat Ali Shah, aged 17, broke into tears along with his brother as they prepared to go to back to the school. He admitted both of them struggle to sleep and sometimes wake up crying for their mother. However he was adamant in going back and fulfilling his ambition of becoming an air force officer, he added, \u201cThose who have done all this to all of us cannot be called humans.\u201d

\nSchools around Pakistan have raised their boundary walls, stationed armed guards and installed metal detectors, although the question is raised as to why it took such a horrific attack to focus attention on school safety.<\/p>\n


\nMilitary operations in tribal areas have been enforced and the death penalty has been reinstated allowing military courts to try civilians. These measures have been put into place to crack down on terrorism. In Peshawar, media and vehicles were kept hundreds of meters (yards) away from the Army Public School, and two helicopters circled overhead. The chief of Pakistan’s army Gen. Raheel Sharif, was present with his wife to greet and console the students. <\/p>\n


\nTeacher Andleeb Aftab who lost her 10th grade son, Huzaifa, in the attack, came in a black dress and head scarf. She said she chose to go back to school rather than stay at home and continue to mourn. \u201cI have come here because the other kids are also my kids,\u201d she said. \u201cI will complete the dreams of my son, the dreams I had about my son, by teaching other students.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAhmed Nawaz, aged 15, said he was in continuous pain as his wounded left arm was still receiving treatment, but he was compelled to return to school. He had one message for the militants, \u201cWe are not scared of you.\u201d \n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Children in Peshawar Go Back to School that Experienced Deadly Shooting The Pakistani school where a deadly shooting took place sees pupils returning with shaken parents. It was a terrorist attack that killed 150 children in the city of Peshawar, seven Taliban militants were responsible for the murders that shocked a nation. Stricter security […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}