Parents rush to schools worrying about their children

Rawalpindi
It was a terrible scene when the earth shook yet again exactly after ten years in the same month of October and reminded us of that horrendous earthquake that ripped through the northern areas of Pakistan before.
Monday’s earthquake scared everyone inside or outside their houses, offices, educational institutions and shops and rushed outside for their safety. The buildings and houses rumbled and groaned and the glasses windows creaked with sounds and jittered with the movement of earthquake and compelled everyone to run out.
At 2.09 pm, when the earthquake came, most of the students of schools and colleges get off and prepare to go to their homes. The parents after feeling the severity of the earthquake rushed to the schools to pick up their kids from school and immediately enquired about the whereabouts and safety of their family members.
Each and everyone rushed out of their homes and offices reciting ‘Kalma e Tayyaba’ and ‘Astaghfar’ to save their lives and were reluctant to go inside even after an hour. The family members living abroad were really worried about their family living here in Pakistan and immediately called to enquire about their safety.
“This was even worst than the previous one we have experienced ten years back” said Bina Masood while talking to ‘The News’, a mother who had come to pick up her kids from school . “May Allah have mercy on us. The worst part is that I can’t even contact my other family members, all the networks have crashed,” she said.
“All my class mates started crying,” said a ten-year-old girl Zoha who had first time experienced an earthquake. Our teacher shouted to run to the open area for safety. The teachers consoled the students who were overwhelmed and handed over the kids to their parents.
Mushtaq a shop-owner at a plaza said that all the glasses and shutters of the shops started rumbling with great noise and we thought the plaza is about to fall on our head. We all rushed out in the open to save our lives.
Many plazas and buildings have created cracks on the pillars and the owners were worried about their safety. It is a matter of concern for everyone with the death toll increasing in each city by the minute but it is indeed big consolation for those who escaped this disaster yet again but this memory would definitely haunt them for ages.