Pakistani youngster Sabika Sheik, one of the ten executed in the Santa Fe High School shooting, was anticipating spending Eid among family and companions back home, her dad Abdul Aziz revealed to The Express Tribune.
Aziz, eyes overflowing with tears, said he can't grapple with the way that his sweetheart little girl is no more. "We were educated a couple of a great many. The Pakistani department in Texas was an incredible help," he said.
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Aziz said she was a young lady of incredible blessing. "May little girl was to a great degree skilled. She routinely positioned among the best in her class," he said. The father of the perished said she needed to commit her life to Pakistan.
Sheik, the oldest of three kin, was slated to return on June 9. Her sibling said the family had been anticipating tossing a great welcome for her.
A pall of despondency hangs over Sheik's Gulistan-e-Iqbal living arrangement presently, house swarming with grievers, family naturally crushed.
17-year-old Sheik was in the United States regarding the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program since August, 2017. "It is with the best trouble in my heart that one of our YES understudies, Sabika Sheik of Pakistan, was killed today in the school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas," American Councils for International Education program chief Megan Lysaght wrote in a letter to YES understudies. "If you don't mind realize that the YES program is crushed by this misfortune and we will recall Sabika and her families in our musings and petitions. We will have a snapshot of hush in her memory today," the letter goes ahead to peruse.
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Outside Office Spokesperson Muhammad Faisal named Sheik's downfall 'terrible'.
"Our delegate general is in contact with the family and the nearby experts and is trying endeavors to organize the soonest repatriation of the human remains," he said in a Twitter post. Faisal likewise petitioned God for the left soul.
Prior, the Pakistani government office in Washington DC affirmed Sheik's passing in the shooting on Twitter. Pakistani agent Aizaz Chaudhry additionally communicated genuine sympathies for the casualties of the heartbreaking occurrence.
