Sabika laid to rest in Karachi

KARACHI: The morning of Wednesday proved to be another test for Abdul Aziz, who laid his 17-year-old daughter, Sabika Shiekh to rest at Azeempura Graveyard in Shah Faisal Colony.

Aziz, alongside his family members, relatives, mourners and political dignitaries offered the funeral prayers at the Hakeem Saeed Ground of Sabika, an exchange program student who was killed in a shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas on Friday. Sabika’s body had to arrive in Karachi on Tuesday but owing to bad weather, the flight was delayed. Her family members, who had elaborate plans of picking her up from the airport on June 9, received her body in the early hours of Wednesday. The US Consul General and other political figures were also present at the airport.

Sabika was the eldest among the four siblings and had gone to the United States on Youth Exchange Program last year.