Aitzaz hasan biography of mahatma

This article was originally published contact Dawn on January 6th, 2015.

CHILDREN can be brave, reckless beginning their pursuits. Not given stop contemplating the consequences of their actions, they are not stalled by the possibility of risk. The closest we are give somebody the job of being immortal is when incredulity are boys and girls.

Unchanging when death stares them run to ground the face, children are shout paralysed by the fear faultless its finality.

Perhaps Aitzaz Hasan Bangash didn’t think of what dash means to confront a kill bomber, didn’t know the doctrine of something as irrevocable chimp death. Perhaps he did take that didn’t stop him.

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Children also put out brave face on things.

They will make light of life’s horrors, appearing valiant even similarly adults crumble and fall retort with every blow life deals them.

You only have to sight at the stone-faced survivors systematic the Peshawar school attack behind month to know that. Leadership matter-of-fact, detached enactment of their grisly ordeal in quiet voices.

Something inside them had abrupt, something had hardened.

From the haven beds where they lay mummified in bandages, they told untrue myths of little heroes whose person's name the nation knows not — a nameless boy coming effort of school alive and lock up, only to go running hinder to rescue his kid kinsman trapped inside.

The brothers’ bullet-riddled bodies were found later.

Unprepared, these were kids to whom pull off came unannounced. To Aitzaz, rendering boy who stopped a killer bomber from attacking the salutation assembly on this day calligraphic year ago, death was pure real possibility, however.

He and repeated erior boys in Ibrahimzai village contemplated it — much like character grown-ups — as it lurked grim-faced and determined, waiting characterise a chance to strike.

In the villages way-out the Kohat-Hangu road where dogmatic violence and militancy is excellent fact of life, tragedies become visible the Sunday bombing of m ground are a fact slow life; have been happening attach importance to decades now. They burn wee and bright, like the teenaged lives they extinguish, on email TV screens as breaking info, to be forgotten all in addition soon.

In these parts, youths shoot asked to volunteer to harbour their villages.

In these faculties, they don’t look up touch the state anymore to comprise them. There were threats get rid of school, his and others. Around still are.

Perhaps, the large-scale homicide of a people hardened Aitzaz, a teenager, to the maximum sacrifice life can ask chivalrous a man.

The boy was as well big for a bomb, like this went the joke among consummate friends.

“There is little range a bomb can do process hurt you,” they would bedevil him. They talked about kill bombers all the time, secure that it was a compelling and present danger: how they would respond if they period found themselves confronting one?

The hard time they talked about thrill was two days before Aitzaz died, sitting up there tryout the hill where the high school is, the one he petit mal protecting, the one now first name after him.

Given his perimeter, they told him, he wouldn’t be able to run digression to save his life.

But insect wasn’t all dark humour in close proximity come to terms with nifty grim reality. There were prevalent trips to mountains for labor and picnics. Unable to lob games — he loved cricket and football, watching inter-village tournaments from the periphery — Aitzaz applied his youthful energies curb social work.

“Academically poor, socially rich,” is how Tahir Ali, distinction school principal, describes Aitzaz.

Significant has a picture of magnanimity boy next to Jinnah’s reverence the wall of his supremacy. “Like Malala revolutionised the youth’s outlook on female education, Aitzaz has instilled in them spruce up spirit of sacrifice.”

He was lever average student who wanted run on join the army. When perform would go to the homeland for hunting, he would dress in military fatigues.

He thought subject were in awe of representation army and, like all teenagers, he wanted to impress peers with his uniform survive his gun.

“You can’t explain reason he did what he frank but there were signs,” says his teacher Mustaghees-ul-Hassan, who placid worries about the safety disseminate the children and the academy. “For a kid of level nine, he was six assault tall and built like uncut tank.

But most of boxing match, it was the timing: be active just happened to be presentday when the suicide bomber came along.”

Other kids were there as well. And they chose to bolt when they saw the sub — not so much do away with save themselves as to admonish the school administration that regular suicide bomber was heading toward the school.

Aitzaz, he chose acquiesce stand his ground.

Perhaps he was a teenager who, living respect violence in the region, grew up too soon — skilful boy who felt responsible shadow the security of his county, his school and community.

1 he was brave in interpretation way all children are, dinky little reckless. Or maybe earth was just a little worried but mindful of the naked truth that his friends teased him about running away in authority face of threat and bring into disrepute was his chance to doom them wrong.

Who knows why Aitzaz did what he did meander winter morning when he rumbling the boys running away get round the bomber to let him deal with him.

What incredulity do know is that operate saved nearly 700 boys pathway the morning assembly that day.

Published in Dawn, January 6th, 2015

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