Aitzaz Hassan’s family still vital underneath ‘Taliban threat’
Aitzaz Hassan Bangash. PHOTO: AFP
Tributes poured in from opposite a universe for a Pakistani teen who was killed on Jan 6, 2014, when he tackled a self-murder bomber targeting his propagandize in Hangu, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
At 15, Aitzaz Hassan Bangash became a favourite for a republic yearning to better a Taliban. Social media done him a star for wrestling down a bomber during a embankment of Government High Secondary School Ibrahimzai before he was martyred.
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Aitzaz’s family was vivacious when a supervision of Pakistan awarded him a Sitara-e-Shujaat, a prestigious inhabitant municipal endowment for his model act of bravery. He remained a source of honour and fun for elder hermit Mujtaba Hassan.
A immature Aitzaz Hassan Bangash. PHOTO: EXPRESS
When internal and general media contacted Mujtaba for interviews, he proudly narrated how his hermit foiled a militant attack. And while a range might not be as impressed by terrorists as it once was, problems remain.
Over 3 years after his death, Aitzaz’s family is still struggling to underneath a ‘Taliban threat’.
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The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), on Apr 1, wrote an open minute to Aitzaz’s family observant that “Aitzaz Hassan Bangash is conjunction a martyred nor a hero. Media should desert compelling him.”
“Unidentified people handed over a threating minute to a shopkeeper in a encampment and told him to send it to Aitzaz’s home,” Mujtaba said.
The letter, a duplicate of that is accessible with The Express Tribune, adds that, “Aitzaz Hassan’s hermit Mujtaba Hassan should stop assembly media [local and general channels and newspapers] and supervision institutions, or else, he will be obliged for a damages.”
Aitzaz’s father Mujahid Ali Bangash receiving Sitara-e-Shujaat from President Mamnoon Hussain. PHOTO: EXPRESS
When a single–page minute surfaced, it was expecting that a PTI-led K-P supervision would immediately do something for a confidence of a teenager’s family.
“This minute is not usually a hazard to Aitzaz’s family though also a hazard to a whole nation,” pronounced Aitzaz’s father Mujahid Ali Bangash.
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Aitzaz’s father, who now lives in Pakistan, was undone by how a K-P supervision unhappy him and his family by not gripping a pledges it done after his son’s death.
When Aitzaz died, Mujahid was in Dubai and was not means to get behind to his encampment in time for his son’s burial.
“When we was told on a phone that my son sacrificed his life to save several children during his school, we lifted my hands and prayed with pride…because of my son, we am now a father of a martyr,” Mujahid said.
But he was reduction heartened by a “The K-P supervision done several pledges [after Aitzaz’s death] but, a provincial supervision could not do any of those.”
A mural of Aitzaz in a classroom of his school. PHOTO: EXPRESS
We were told, Mujahid added, that during slightest dual grade colleges would be built in a area – one for girls and one for boys – though unfortunately they have not even allocated land for this.”
The provincial supervision had also announced that a highway from Hangu to Kohat would be named after Aitzaz, though this was not followed adult on.
“PTI Chairman Imran Khan had betrothed special monthly supports for a family that have never been given to us,” he continued.
“A senator and a provincial K-P apportion once pronounced Aitzaz’s story will turn a partial of a synopsis being taught during educational institutions of a country,’ pronounced Aitzaz’s father.
“We were told that there will be a sports track in Ibrahimzai, though a encampment is still deprived of all a comforts it deserves.”
But notwithstanding his grievances, Mujahid many wanted a K-P supervision to urge a state of preparation and foster sports in a range to stop militant recruitment.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1401100/aitzaz-hassans-family-still-living-taliban-threat/