[🇵🇰] Pakistani girl killed in school shooting in USA - old article but worth reading - 2018

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[H1]Pakistan: Student Sabika Sheikh killed in Texas school shooting[/H1]
Sabika Sheikh, 17, was among at least 10 schoolchildren killed when a gunman opened fire at the Sante Fe High School.

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Islamabad, Pakistan – Sabika Sheikh, a 17-year-old Pakistani student on a foreign exchange programme in the United States, was among those killed in the Sante Fe school shooting, her family and the programme have confirmed.
Sheikh was among at least 10 schoolchildren killed when a gunman opened fire at the Sante Fe High School, about 50km southeast of Houston, on Friday morning.
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A 17-year-old boy, identified by police as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, has been taken into custody following the attack, the 22nd school shooting in the US this year.
Sheikh, 17, hailed from the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, a sprawling metropolis of more than 18 million people that is the largest city in the country.
"She was extraordinary, genius, and talented," Abdul Aziz, her father, told reporters at their home in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal neighbourhood.
"My daughter never came fourth [in class] – only ever first, second or third.
"At such a young age she would say such huge things, that sometimes I couldn't believe it. Even now I cannot believe that my daughter is gone," he said, his voice breaking with emotion.
Abdul Aziz said he attempted to call his daughter immediately after hearing news of the shooting, but she did not pick up her mobile phone.

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"I called [the foreign exchange programme's] coordinator there, I spoke to them, and they told me […] about three hours later, at 11pm [18:00 GMT, about five hours after the shooting], they confirmed that she was dead."
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Sheikh was visiting the US under the Youth Exchange and Study (YES) programme, a State Department-funded programme that provides scholarships to Pakistani students to attend high school in the US for a full academic year.
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Students live with host families in the city they are placed in and are immersed in academic and cultural programmes.

Sabika Sheikh was visiting the US under a State Department-funded programme that provides scholarships to Pakistani students [Twitter]
Since 2003, more than 1,100 Pakistani high school students have studied in the US under the YES programme, according to the organisation's website.
Megan Lysaght, manager of YES, wrote to students in the programme confirming that Sheikh was killed in the shooting.
"It is with the greatest sadness in my heart that I need to inform you that one of our YES students, Sabika Sheikh from Pakistan, was killed today in the school shooting in Sante Fe, Texas," she wrote in an email.
"Please know that the YES program is devastated by this loss and we will remember Sabika and her families in our thoughts and prayers."

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David Hale, US ambassador to Pakistan, said embassy staff were "devastated" by the news, and called Sheikh's family to express condolences.
"As an exchange student, Sabika was a youth ambassador, a bridge between our peoples and cultures. All of us at the US Mission in Pakistan are devastated by and mourn her loss. We will honor her memory," he said, according to a statement.
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Pakistani exchange student killed in US school shooting

Sabika Sheikh, 17, was among at least 10 schoolchildren killed when a gunman opened fire at the Sante Fe High School.

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[H1]Sabika Sheikh, Pakistani teen killed at Texas school, is laid to rest in home country[/H1]
Sabika Sheikh had planned to return home in a few weeks for Eid al-Fitr, the three-day holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Instead, her tearful father received her body at Karachi airport early Wednesday morning.

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May 23, 2018, 10:48 AM EDT / Updated May 23, 2018, 10:48 AM EDT
By Associated Press
KARACHI, Pakistan — The body of a 17-year-old Pakistani exchange student killed in a mass shooting at a high school in Texas arrived before dawn Wednesday in the port city of Karachi, where her family lived and where she was being buried.
Sabika Sheikh was among 10 students and staff slain Friday at Santa Fe High School. The alleged shooter is 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who is being held on capital murder charges.

Sabika had planned to return home in a few weeks for Eid al-Fitr, the three-day holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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She was her family's oldest child and began classes at Santa Fe High School last August. She had hoped to one day join Pakistan's foreign service.
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"Before her death, she was just my daughter, but now she is the daughter of Pakistan, and it is only because of the love of people, who mourned her killing," her father said.

The shooting reignited the debate over gun control in the United States. Pakistan requires gun owners to be licensed, but the rules are poorly enforced, particularly in the tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan. Heavily armed militant groups have carried out scores of attacks in recent years.

Sabika Sheikh, Pakistani teen killed at Texas school, is laid to rest in home country

Sabika Sheikh had planned to return home in a few weeks for Eid al-Fitr, the three-day holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Instead, her tearful father received her body at Karachi airport early Wednesday morning.

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So please guys give your input.

Gun violence is a very old issue in the US. Read carefully; my own son luckily survived one such major school shooting in the same year, 2018 in the US, when many of his classmates and teachers were killed. I even went to the shooting site to rescue my son, but the police, quite understandably, did not allow me to enter. Otherwise, the son would have been another Pakistani-born child added to the list of killed children. That Pakistani girl was simply present at the wrong place and at the wrong time. Condolences to her family. My family is also a victim of a school shooting, and still, my son could not recover from the trauma, even though he successfully graduated this year in Computer Science from the university.

 

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Gun violence is a very old issue in the US. Read carefully; my own son luckily survived one such major school shooting in the same year, 2018 in the US, when many of his classmates and teachers were killed. I even went to the shooting site to rescue my son, but the police, quite understandably, did not allow me to enter. Otherwise, the son would have been another Pakistani-born child added to the list of killed children. That Pakistani girl was simply present at the wrong place and at the wrong time. Condolences to her family. My family is also a victim of a school shooting, and still, my son could not recover from the trauma, even though he successfully graduated this year in Computer Science from the university.

Lets admit it, USA has a gun problem. USA has the highest number of mass shootings, school shootings, and gun related homicides.