Peshawar attack victims remembered at Pak High Commission

Special prayers were offered for the victims of the 2014 Peshawar school attack, at the Pakistan High Commission here, with its envoy today asserting that the occasion was also to reaffirm the nation's "iron resolve" to defeat terrorism.
Nearly 150 people, mostly children, were killed on December 16 three years ago, when heavily armed Taliban suicide bombers stormed a Pakistan military-run school in Peshawar.
"'Quran Khawani' and 'dua' were held at the Pakistan High Commission for the 'Esale-e-Sawab' of the martyrs of the Army Public School (APS), Peshawar. Special prayers were offered for the departed souls and for the bereaved families," the High Commission said in a statement.

The officers and staff of the mission participated in the commemoration ceremony.
Innocent young students and their teachers became victims of the dastardly terrorist attack, which left the families, the entire Pakistani nation, and indeed the international community, overwhelmed with deep grief and sorrow, Pakistan High Commissioner Sohail Mahmood said.
"The world stood in strong solidarity with the people of Pakistanm," he was quoted as saying by the statement.
Mahmood, while remembering the sacrifice of the martyrs, also prayed for his country's valiant security personnel battling the terrorists.
"This was also the occasion to reaffirm the nation's iron resolve to decisively defeat the scourge of terrorism and to continue to build a strong and secure Pakistan," he said.