Summary Large number of people belonging to Pakistan community was present on this occasion.
(Web Desk) – Several memorial ceremonies all across the world including London, Turkey and China were organized to pay homage to the martyrs and survivors of Army Public School (APS).
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The vicious incident of APS massacre has marked one year but the students who embraced martyrdom while fighting with terrorists fearlessly are still remembered.
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The Pakistani embassies in Turkey and China arranged ceremonies and candlelight vigils to show solidarity with the children while the huge number of participants also laid flowers in front of the pictures of martyrs.
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Separately in London, a commemoration event was held in Pakistani Higher Commission office during which the Commissioner Syed Ibn-e-Abbas awarded Tamgha-e-Shujaat to martyred APS student Harris Nawaz.
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Large number of people belonging to Pakistani community was present on this occasion.
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Students of various schools, representatives of civil society and armed forces attended the ceremony to pay homage to the young martyrs. Corps Commander 10 Corps Lieutenant General Malik Zafar Iqbal, laid the wreath at Yadgar-e-Shuhada.
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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.
