Inside Army Public School, once upon a time...

December 17, 2014 16:15

"Once you enter the gates of the school, there is a long straight road ahead of you, with a playground to the right of the road and the school wall to the left. Perhaps it would not seem so long now, 13 years later. In my mind's eye, the length of the road remains the same, but I struggle to recall it without the images of little dead bodies superimposed over it."

Asad Liaqat, a former student of the Army Public School in Peshawar, remembers a time when his alma mater was not synonymous with terror.
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Pic: A student of the Army Public School waits it out yesterday, outside his school as militants go on a rampage within. Khuram Parvez/Reuters

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