Today marks one month since the massacre of 132 schoolchildren in Peshawar. Meet the 27-year-old lawyer who is bent on prosecuting the Taliban and unveiling their sympathisers in the country, despite several threats to his life.
Mohammad Jibran Nasir, a lawyer and social activist from Karachi, has started a campaign against terrorism and terrorist sympathisers in Pakistan in the wake of the attack on Peshawar's schoolchildren.
A lot comes with the stand Nasir has taken. "The religious organisation Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamat (ASWJ) have questioned my faith. The All Pakistan Khatm-e-Nabuwat Movement have tried to get an FIR registered against me for blasphemy. They associated someone else's offensive remarks about Prophet Muhammad with me, just to get me in trouble. I've been called an agent and even managed to get the direct attention of a Taliban spokesman. All of this was only motivational," Nasir told BuzzFeed over a phone call.
M. Jibran Nasir
The December 16 terrorist attack led by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar, seems to have served as a wake-up call for Pakistani civilians. The attack killed 141 people -- 132 being schoolchildren -- who were brutally shot in their heads and neck while seated in an auditorium.
Iftikhar mourns his son Mohammed Ali Khan, 15, a student who was killed in the attack.
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While most Pakistani statesmen and clerics condemn such attacks, some have a reputation for sympathising with the Taliban, going as far as calling them "brothers" and advising that the government join hands with them to fight against the infidels.
Well known Pakistani cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz, the imaam of the Red Mosque (Lal Masjid), Islamabad, openly sympathised with the Taliban and refused to condemn the vile attack on schoolchildren in a TV show.
