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‘Nightmare’: Pakistan family mourns daughter killed in Texas shooting

Abdul Aziz (centre) learnt of his daughter’s death via CNN

By: Sarwar Alam

Abdul Aziz learned about the US school shooting in which his 17-year-old daughter was killed from CNN, with the story airing live as he broke his Ramadan fast thousands of miles away in Pakistan. In those chaotic first moments of confusion and terror he called his daughter Sabika Sheikh’s phone over and over. She did not answer. “I kept calling her and sent her messages on WhatsApp. Never before had my daughter failed to reply,” Aziz said, fighting back tears at his home in the southern port city Karachi Saturday, just hours after he and his wife had their worst…

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