They went to school and never came back

You are the flower which will never wilt,

Your smile is the gift which will never droop,

Your little dreams were squash mercilessly,

And you were laid enshrouded in blood..💔

You were the star of your mother's eyes,

She couldn't see you in the plight, you were that day...💔

Your absence in a sudden is the cause of her illness,

The pain she received would always be in her heart...!

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7 years back today, the 6 gunmen made a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. They targeted the students and staff. Total of 144 people, of which 134 students, and 10 staff members were martyred in the attack, and more than 100 were injured. The student's age ranges from 8 years to 18 years. There was some ceremony was going on in the school hall, and great number of students were attending there, but these heartless people entered from the back side, and killed them recklessly.


Seven years have been passed, but still my heart is crying, as I am writing it today, and nothing can measure the pain which mothers bear to loss their children. The principle of the school headed to stop the terrorists, but they dragged her to the ground and burned her by sprinkling the oil in front of all the innocent kids. How could someone be so heartless?


Of the martyrs, there was little Khaula of only 6 years old, it was her first day in school in one class for which she was excited. According to her father, before she was studying in another school, but she insisted on studying with her siblings, so her parents admitted her to the same school with her siblings. But no one was aware about the deathbed which was waiting for her there.


Muhammad Mobeen was the only male kid of his parents, and he was 16 years old. He got 2nd position in pre-board exams, so his mother wanted him to maintain the same grade in the final exams. He was very confident, and he told his mother that he would do wonders. But he was unaware, that he wouldn't be able to give the exams. He embraced the death, and left this world forever. There was also a Shahzad, who wanted to be a pilot, and he had collected so many pictures of air force, but his death wouldn't provide him the opportunity to fulfil his dream.


Shahzeb from 8th class was also a brilliant student. His classmate later revealed that shahzeb sacrificed his life to save him and other students. He was a brave boy, who never let the terrorists attack his friends, and opened the door for them to run away. There was also another kid, who survived in spite getting 8 shots on his face. He gave an interview later, in which he described the fear and pain he had been gone through that time. He said, I was hopeless, and the only thought which was running at that time in my mind was about my mom. I was not sure, whether I would be able to hug my mom again or not. He actually experienced the death very close, but Almighty gave him another life.

I have described here the stories of only few students, but there are so many who were holding dreams in their eyes, but heartless terrorists deprived them of their innocent dreams, and put their families in never-ending pain. Every December brought us their hurtful memories, but we couldn't do anything expect mourning at the loss of innocent souls. May their souls rest in peace and Almighty give them the highest rank in Jinnah.

At the end, I only want to ask the killers, What was their fault? Do they really deserve what you did with them? Never you thought even for a second before killing 144 innocent souls? Do you really deserve to be called human?

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