"How can you forget it when a person, who has been sitting next to you in the class for the last six or seven years, just dies in your lap," questioned Amir Ameen, whose best friend Aimal Khan was shot dead by terrorists in front of him in the Tuesday's attack on Army Public School and Degree College in Peshawar.

Both friends were sitting in the college corridor with other classmates after taking intermediate examination when they heard four gunmen running and shooting.

The boys took shelter in a nearby chemistry laboratory but to no avail. Terrorists came to the laboratory and started shooting them mercilessly.

As Amir Ameen recalls the horrific incident which left him scarred for life and snatched away his best friend, his facial expressions show as if he has just seen a ghost.

His voice quivers, "I kept lying for more than an hour quietly. I feared the terrorists would come back," he said. He was rescued by soldiers after a long frightful hour. However, he was distraught at the thought that his best friend was gone, forever. Read more