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COMMEMORATING THE PESHAWAR SCHOOL MASSACRE

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Peerzada Muzamil THOUGHTS      "It was the day when children went to acquire the light of knowledge and faded to the eternity of grim darkness; when teachers were giving lessons and received bullets in wage" It was one of the darkest hours of the human history. It was the hour which broke our hearts, which made the entire world aghast. It was the hour of disgrace which gave a chill to the nerves of humanity. It was the winter of bloodbath. And it all began that morning – morning of that December, the winter of which was less harsh than what it was going to witness; when the kids left their homes for school and never returned. It was the day when children went to acquire the light of knowledge and faded into the eternity of grim darkness; when teachers were giving lessons and received bullets in wage. It all began the morning when a bunch of terrorists, laden with lethal arms, misled by their distorted religious ideologies, committed the ferocious atrocity that

THE GRAVEDIGGERS BURIAL

A Short Story Peerzada Muzamil "Let me dig more, let the more scorpions come out, and hairy spiders too, let me keep digging till the edge of my shovel hits the inhumed corpse..." I am coming for you, riding on this black stallion, in the moonlit night, and I am at the steep hill, just a few gallops away from your resort. Do you remember that cursed night, when I beheld you on the furthest of the churchyards, on the bleakest of nights when the wolves howled and the screaming ghosts hastened out of the distorted graves? It is since then I am craving for you.   The craving – craving to kill you – is consuming my soul just like a black hole consuming the fiery stars in the remotest of the cosmos. How iniquitous is it to kill an old stooping man, too weak to stand for even a while? But see, I am wistfully restive, for to obliterate your existence is my fervid desire.   See, now I’m exactly there, nothing could stop me from reaching the ceme