PU organizes reception in the honour of the students of Army Public School ,Peshawar

Lahore: Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has said that NATO is operating the engine of terrorism in the world and using extremists to fulfill their nefarious designs. He was addressing a ceremony organized at Al Raazi Hall during the visit of survivor schoolchildren of Army Public School Peshawar.

Army Public School’s Arbab Karim, student of class 10, his younger brother and student of class one Arbaz Zalan, their cousin Arbab Hamza, their teacher Zubair Mahboob and a large number of PU teachers and students participated.

While reading some paragraphs from renowned British journalist Richard Cottrell’s book Gladio, Dr Mujahid Kamran said that the secret agencies of NATO countries were behind the major terrorist incidents in the world like 7/7 and used extremists and religious fanatics as their tool. “In the 1970s and ‘80s, the spectre of officially orchestrated terror stalked the European landscape. Gladio was the name of the Italian branch of the secret Guerrilla armies that NATO established to ‘stay behind’ in the event of a Russian invasion. Every NATO state, and some that were not, had such a secretive force. As the prospect of an attack from the East receded, so did fear of the Soviets,” he cited a paragraph, reading further “the modern-day manufactured ‘war on terror’ comes from the same stable of synthetic violence.

With the communist bogey exhausted, we are told of an insidious new peril in our midst: the fearful prospect of minarets and Sharia law marching across the European landscape, destroying Christian civilization. But for fear to work in a tangible form, as was discovered in the years of lead, we must have the visible impact of terror all around us. That is where we are now.” Dr Mujahid Kamran said that terrorism could not be eliminated through military operation alone but we must wipe it out at mental level and curb extremism. He said that we were far away from the real meaning and interpretations of Islam and had fallen prey to Mullahism.

He said that our enemies were taking benefit of our weaknesses. He said that unfortunately, since the establishment of Pakistan, education sector had been ignored and if we had one education system, we must not have faced such distractions and divisions. He said that the 1.5 billion Muslims had no value only because we had almost no share in creation of new knowledge. Narrating the incident, student Arbab Karim said that he was inside the auditorium when the terrorists broke the door and opened indiscriminate fire on the students.

He said that he hardly managed to escape from the scene while 8 of his class fellows were martyred on the spot. He said that he would join Pakistan Army to take revenge from the terrorists. Arbaz Zalan, student of class one, said that he was in his class when he heard firing outside. Suddenly, he said, our teachers instructed us to hide ourselves and then we went to washrooms. Later, soldiers of Pakistan Army rescued us, he added. Father Arbab Rahim said the parents were facing a critical situation outside Army Public School while waiting for their sons and daughters.

Arbab Hamza, the survivors’ cousin, said that if terrorists thought that they could bar us from going to school, then it was their mistake. He said that we would fight them. Later, Fateha and dua was offered for the departed souls and bereaved families.