Karachi(May 23, 2018): Sabika Sheikh was laid to rest in Karachi’s Azeempura Graveyard after offering funeral prayers at Hakeem Saeed Ground today.
Sabia Sheikh, a Pakistan-Us Exchange Program Student was shot dead in Texas school shooting.
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The funeral prayers were attended by Chief Minister Sindh, Governor Sindh, Interior Minister and people belonging from various walks of the society were present, Sabia, who was shot dead in Texas’s School was laid to rest in Azeempura Graveyard.
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Earlier today, the body of Sabika Sheikh, a Pakistani exchange student shot dead in Santa Fe, Texas, on Friday, arrived here in Karachi.
The foreign airline TK-708 carrying the body of Sheikh, 17, from Texas was earlier delayed by at least a day.
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The body was subsequently transported to her residence, where her bereaved family and mourning friends and relatives are present. Her father, Aziz Sheikh, and her uncle Abdul Jaleel Sheikh accompanied the body from the airport to Gulshan-e-Iqbal area in the ambulance.
As per details, a plane carrying Slain Pakistani exchange student’s body arrived at Karachi Cargo Complex at 03:30am, where family and officials from Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) received the body of the teenager. A guard of honour was given to the dead on the premises of the Airport by ASF.Consul General United States to Karachi, family members, friends, relatives and a large number of locals gathered at the airport to receive the body of Karachi teenager which was brought by an international flight TK 708.
Yesterday, Commander US CENTCOM General Joseph Votel called Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa to condole the death of Sabika Sheikh in Texas School Shooting.
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The Commander CENTCOM also conveyed his grief to bereaved family on the loss of an innocent life.
On May 21, funeral prayers for Sabika Sheikh were offered at a local mosque in Houston.
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Thousands of people, including officials of the Pakistani Consulate in Houston as well as local members of the United States Congress, attended the funeral alongside members of the Pakistani diaspora and students of Santa Fe High School.
Mayor of Houston Sylvester Turner tweeted a message saying: “On his We must put our prayers to work, changing laws and policies to protect schools. Otherwise more children will die.
She’s a child of the Sheikh family but she is also one of our children, including all who lost their lives. pic.twitter.com/ILP8jj5feu
— Sylvester Turner (@SylvesterTurner) May 20, 2018
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A nation plagued by a wrenching loop of mass school shootings watched the latest horror play out in this small Southeast Texas town.
Sabika was an exchange student with YES, which is funded by the US State Department. It provides scholarships for secondary school students from countries with significant Muslim populations to spend one academic year in the US
A gunman killed 10, nine of them students, and wounded another 10 in the shooting.
The gunman, who was arrested on murder charges, was identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old junior at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas.
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