INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Pakistan mourns death of Sabika Sheikh in Texas school shootingISLAMABAD: Led by politicians, Pakistanis on
Saturday mourned the death of Sabika Sheikh, a Pakistan student, who was among 10 people, killed in a shooting at a Texas high school in the
United States yesterday.Sabika Sheikh was studying in the US as part of Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) programme
She was a resident of Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi.Sabika was among 75 Pakistani students who were selected to study in the US under the
Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) programme.In a letter sent to the YES programme students, Megan Lysaght, the program manager
(Inbound) at American Councils for International Education, wrote: "It is with [the] greatest sadness in my heart that I need to inform you
that one of our YES students, Sabika Sheikh of Pakistan, was killed today in the school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas."We are saddened to
report that a student on a State Department program administered by American Councils was killed today in a high school shooting in Santa
Sabika Aziz Sheikh was a Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) student from Karachi, Pakistan and was hosted in Texas during the
2017-18 academic year," reads a statement issued by American CouncilsIn a statement on Twitter, PTI chairman Imran Khan express shock and
grief at the tragic death of Sabika Sheikh
Shehbaz Sharif expressed his sympathy with the bereaved family of Sabika Sheikh at her untimely death
expressed grief and shock over the killings of innocent students in US town of Santa Fe in Texas.In a statement, the PPP Chairman said
killings of Pakistani Sabika Aziz and other innocent students have shocked everyone in Pakistan also and we share the grief of all the
victim families.Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that increasing violence in American education institutions was alarming trend adding that
called the family of Sabika Sheikh and offered my deepest condolences
Mission in Pakistan are devastated by and mourn her loss
