RIP Tahira Qazi, principal of Army Public School who had reportedly been rescued but ran back to help her students and was brutally killed.
On BBC World Have your Say this morning one of my fellow guests was a singer in Peshawar, Rahim Khan. He had been a student at the Army Public School on Warsak Road, Peshawar, from 2001-2003, in grades 11 and 12. In this clip he recalls a reunion at the school ten years later with the principal Tahira Qazi, who was so brutally killed in the attack on Dec 16. Rahim remembered singing in the very auditorium where so many were killed. We shared some more thoughts on Twitter later; see below.
@beenasarwar thankyou , you spoke so very correct about the sad incident ! i will participate myself in my bruised college’s reconstruction
— rahim khan (@rahimkhan) December 17, 2014
@beenasarwar this is me with my principal who bravely embraced martydom..ms.tahira qazi ..same ReUnion night snaps pic.twitter.com/ibGLVQPVk9
— rahim khan (@rahimkhan) December 17, 2014
@beenasarwar thats me back in 2012 in the same auditorium for our reUnion night! and look wat its turned into pic.twitter.com/e089tJosbK
@beenasarwar honestly..the more i try to gather my self, the more i am shattered! beena how can i tell u all!? my heart aches i swear
— rahim khan (@rahimkhan) December 17, 2014— rahim khan (@rahimkhan) December 17, 2014
@beenasarwar beena i was out an hour ago..the entire city was wrapped in black! absolute shutter down at 8pm! this never ever happened b4
@beenasarwar they burnt my teachers !! how can accept all this? how?! those kids were flowers!! my brain is not accepting what i hear n c
— rahim khan (@rahimkhan) December 17, 2014
— rahim khan (@rahimkhan) December 17, 2014
@itsmeeshashafi just cant get images of my teachers out of my head.. the corridors in which v giggled r now blood stained @beenasarwar
— rahim khan (@rahimkhan) December 17, 2014
@beenasarwar regardless of religion, v are one humanity! the world is mourning with peshawar! InshaAllah better time is around da corner
— rahim khan (@rahimkhan) December 17, 2014
@beenasarwar @itsmeeshashafi my beloved peshawar has never been this silent n black ! i will reconstruct my college with my own hands
— rahim khan (@rahimkhan) December 17, 2014
@itsmeeshashafi me on the same stage in our auditorium which now is a picture of horror…my heart is aching pic.twitter.com/oBbZE6gN6G
— rahim khan (@rahimkhan) December 17, 2014
my principal when i was in army college in 2001-’03 – lion heart Ms.tahira qazi the World salutes u #PeshawarAttack pic.twitter.com/pKbeCzSWfW
— rahim khan (@rahimkhan) December 17, 2014
Filed under: 'War on terror' | Tagged: Pakistan, Peshawar school attack, Tahira Qazi, Taliban |
Journeys to democracy 
An event such as the one witnessed by the world in which so many children were brutally killed, inevitably it ends up adversely affecting the psyche of people and nations, who are left to deal with many unanswered questions. It is during these difficult times that the psychological trauma felt by all of us can best be consoled through verses from the Quran, which not only provides the proper perspective, but also the much needed psychological consolation from God Himself. Please watch this (and also the ones listed in comments, on Terrorism, Jihad, Qatal/ Killing etc)
8:6 CONSOLATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HURTS. (Australia 2012)
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=474413882592283
8:1 AL-JIHAAD / THE STRIVE. (2007)
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=158503527516655
8:2 AL-HARAB / WAR. (2008)
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=158932107473797
8:3 AL-QATAL / PHYSICAL KILLING. (2008)
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=158942887472719
8:4 QATAL-UN-NAFS / PSYCHOLOGICAL KILLING. (2009)
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=159193590780982
8:5 TERRORISM. (2007)
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=159222277444780
8:7 QISAAS / REQUITAL. (Australia 2012)
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=480338768666461
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