{"id":292870,"date":"2020-12-18T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T05:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=292870"},"modified":"2020-12-18T10:31:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T05:31:36","slug":"aps-survivor-elected-to-uk-youth-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/aps-survivor-elected-to-uk-youth-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"APS Survivor Elected to UK Youth Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Army Public School shooting survivor, Waleed Khan left Pakistan to undergo treatment in Britain following the tragic incident that took Pakistan. Now the APS survivor has made his way to British Youth Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Waleed Khan is one of the few students to survive the APS Peshawar massacre. He was wounded in the attack and received eight bullets, six to the face. He had to undergo 12 surgeries but still wears the scars from his trauma bravely.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Raleway ,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/malala-beyonce-team-up-for-a-film-for-united-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malala &amp; Beyonce Team Up for a Film For United Nations<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This young man has been now elected a member of the Youth Parliament in the United Kingdom (UK). He had gone to the UK to under six major face surgeries and another six surgeries. Now he&#8217;s a model citizen in his new home.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch Waleed&#39;s story and his aims of standing in the UK Youth Parliament elections. If you&#39;re 11-18 in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Birmingham?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Birmingham<\/a>, ask your school how you can vote this week in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKYP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UKYP<\/a> elections for M. Waleed Khan! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/youngpeople?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#youngpeople<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/democracy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#democracy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/courage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#courage<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/makeyourmark?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#makeyourmark<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oGBA2kgZ0J\">pic.twitter.com\/oGBA2kgZ0J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UoB School (@UoBSchool) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UoBSchool\/status\/961355844532219905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The trauma of Hell on Earth is nothing something you can easily overcome. Despite being so disfigured, even his parents were unable to recognize him, he is now the face of resilience.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen my father reached the hospital and started searching for me among the dead and injured he found me nowhere. He was shocked and exhausted at the same time, \u2026 A doctor, in the end, told him that a child was lying there in one coroner in a badly injured condition but even then he was unable to recognize me.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Raleway ,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/aps-attack-survivor-ahmad-nawaz-is-heading-to-oxford-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">APS Attack Survivor Ahmad Nawaz is Heading to Oxford University<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Meanwhile, another APS survivor that moved to Britain to recollect his life, Ahmed Nawaz is studying Philosophy and Theology at Oxford University. He was awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/aps-attack-survivor-ahmad-nawaz-awarded-points-of-light-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Points of Light<\/a> award last year for his anti-radicalization activism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army Public School shooting survivor, Waleed Khan left Pakistan to undergo treatment in Britain following the tragic incident that took Pakistan. Now the APS survivor has made his way to British Youth Parliament. Waleed Khan is one of the few students to survive the APS Peshawar massacre. He was wounded in the attack and received eight bullets, six to the [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/aps-survivor-elected-to-uk-youth-parliament\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":292873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298,2199,1291],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-featured","9":"category-social-media"},"wps_subtitle":"Wearing his scars bravely, Waleed took eight bullets, six to his face. 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