Open Letter To Pakistan - Remembering #APS

TURBAT: Two years have passed since the Army Public School Peshawar became the target of one of the deadliest assaults in the history of Pakistan. To date, it remains a mystery as to why the attack was carried out. Today is a day to pay homage to students and teachers who lost their lives, as well as to educationists who have been braving their lives every day since then to educate our children.

Unfortunately, Pakistan is at the top of the terrorism list where terrorist attacks on educational institutions have taken place at an alarming rate. I fail to understand how Zarb-e-Azb can protect schools in Pakistan; many enemy strikes occur around educational institutions which is too close for live warfare. Schools are where educationists are made, as well as future doctors, engineers, police officers and other intellectuals. The cure for terrorism is not through having every common man pick up a gun and fight; rather, it is education that is the cure of all the problems and outcomes of Pakistan. Until our educational institutions remain weak, we will be confronting such terrorist attacks.

Zeeshan Nasir