Green-shirts visit Army Public School

KARACHI: Pakistan hockey team visited the Army Public School, Peshawar, the other day to express solidarity with the brave students who lost more than a hundred of their fellows in an attack a month ago.
The team was accompanied by Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) president Akhtar Rasool, chief coach Shahnaz Sheikh and chief selector Islahuddin Siddiqui.
The players and the officials laid a floral wreath on a monument in the school ground and offered fateha for those who died in the attack.
The PHF president said the sacrifices of the students had awakened the nation. “They are our real heroes and we are proud of them,” said Akhtar.
He dedicated his team’s 1982 World Cup victory to the martyrs of the school.
The students vowed to fight against terrorism. “We are determined to fight and eliminate terrorists. They can’t tame us,” calm and composed students lined up in the school ground vowed collectively.
Zunain, who sustained four bullets on his shoulder, arm and left foot, said he vividly remembered the carnage. “I want to tell the terrorists that we are not afraid of them,” he said.
The school children got photographed with the national players.