PESHAWAR: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan was in for embarrassment as he was booed away by the parents of the 142 children massacred in the Army School in the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar as he made a visit there to express his condolences.
Parents blocked Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party chief and his wife Reham Khans entry in the school and shouted slogans of “Go Imran Go”.
The family members of the children slammed Imran for “forgetting the ordeal of the martyred families” and choosing to marry at a time when the nation was mourning one of its worst terrorist attacks ever. The newly married couple was not allowed to enter the school.
The parents were also angry with Khan for politicising the attack. “Do not pour in politics all over the blood of our children,” said an angry parent. They said that it took Imran so many days to realise that he should visit the school “with press reporters to showcase his fake prayers and condolences”.
Parents, including others, cried and heaped scorn at the PTI leader and his fellow politicians including chief minister Pervez Khattak.
Khan’s party has been ruling the province since 2013 after election but so far has failed to deal with the issue of law and order.
Students donned in their green and gold blazers returned on Monday to the school where Taliban gunmen killed 150 of their classmates and teachers last month. Some were seen clutching their parents’ hands tightly in a poignant symbol of perseverance despite the horrors they had endured.
It was the first time the school had reopened since the assault and security was tight. The nation has been reeling from the December 16 terrorist attack in Peshawar one of the worst Pakistan has experienced.
The Pakistani Taliban attacked army-run school in Peshawar, killing close to 150 people, most of them children, in a globally condemned incident.
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