Summary The participants of the rally urged the entire nation to be united against criminal elements.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Punjab Health Department including Institute of Public Health Ameer Uddin Medical College and students of nursing school on Monday held a rally to show solidarity with the martyrs of Army Public School (APS) Peshawar.
The participants marched from Institute of Public Health to Shadman Chowk while holding placards and banners having slogans on them.
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The workers said that they salute the valor and bravery of APS students who embraced martyrdom while encountering with terrorists.
They further urged the entire nation to be united against criminal elements and demanded the government to take necessary steps to counter menace of terrorism.
On December 16, 2014, a team of Taliban gunmen coldly slaughtered 150 people, more than 130 of them children aged between nine and 19, at a school in Peshawar in an assault that shocked and outraged a country already scarred by nearly a decade of extremist attacks.
A little more than 1,000 students and staff were registered at the school, which is part of a network run by the military, although the surrounding area was not heavily fortified at the time of the attack.
The army spokesman, Lt. Gen. Asim Bajwa, had earlier said that 12 suspects have been arrested in connection with the attack. They all belonged to the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Security officials say that the attack was planned by Mullah Fazlullah, the TTP chief, who fled to Afghanistan after a massive military operation in Swat valley in 2009.
Four militants who were part of the APS attack plot were hanged in Kohat prison as per Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif directives.
