Sabika Sheik, a 17-year-old Pakistani researcher taking an interest in the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program in the US, was one of the 10 individuals killed when an adolescent colleague outfitted with a shotgun and a gun opened discharge in the Santa Fe High School in Texas yesterday.
"We got some answers concerning the shooting from a nearby TV channel and attempted, however neglected to contact Sabika and her companions," said Sabika's dad Abdul Aziz, while including that they at that point reached the YES program facilitator, who affirmed the news of their little girl's passing, "following a four to five hour delay."
As per her dad, Sabika — the oldest among three sisters however more youthful than her sibling — was because of profit home for June 9. Her family had been, "checking the days until her arrival".
Hailing from Karachi, Sabika was portrayed as a splendid understudy by her dad. She had finished her Matriculation from Karachi Public School.
As indicated by the Wall Street Journal, she was a "respect move understudy" at the Santa Fe High School.
US Ambassador David Hale communicated lament at Sabika's passing with the accompanying message posted on the US Embassy Pakistan's Facebook page:
"At the beginning of today, I called the group of Sabika Sheik and offered my most profound sympathies. As a trade understudy, Sabika was a young diplomat, an extension between our people groups and societies. Every one of us at the US Mission in Pakistan are crushed by and grieve her misfortune. We will respect her memory."
This is such a sickening loss; I cannot imagine how her family: mother, father, siblings, everyone, is feeling. Gun violence is a sickening monster that has been let loose in our society.
The United States is too militarized, there is too much firepower out there and in the hands of really, really sick people.
I lost a dear friend to a mass shooting two years ago. Gun violence, for me, became as real as the air that I breathe.
So sorry, Pakistan. The US sends love and condolences.
Thank u so much
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