Satyarthi appeals to terrorist groups to spare children

Terming the militant attack on a Peshawar school as an "act of sin", Nobel Peace prize winner Kailash Satyarthi today appealed to the terrorist groups to spare children and asked the global community to work unitedly to defeat terrorism.
The child rights crusader who received the Nobel Peace Prize over a week back with Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai termed the attack in Peshawar as one of the darkest days of humanity.
"My heart is in Peshawar where the incident happened, even though I am not physically present there. It is the most tragic event which has occurred in history of the world.

"When I learnt about what was happening in Pakistan, my first reaction was that those terrorists should leave those 400 kids of mine and take me as a hostage instead. But by then we learnt that over 100 children had already been killed by then," he said.
Expressing his anguish at the act of brutality, Satyarthi appealed to the terrorists groups to spare lives of innocents.
"These are acts of sin, against any religion. They should remember their own childhood, life under their parents and spare young children with this thought. No religion allows for the killing of innocent beings," Satyarthi added.

He was speaking at an event organised by the German Embassy here in collaboration with NGO 'The Hope Project' which has launched a project to teach computer skills to girls.
Satyarthi also strongly advocated making concerted efforts for ensuring education for girls, saying it was key for a harmonious society.
"Education of girls is highly necessary, not just because we're living in the world of information, technology and need to stay updated but because we want to create a world which is connected together and that cannot exist without education," he said.