Funeral set for Pakistan’s Sabika in Texas

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
the funeral Sunday in Texas of Sabika Sheikh, the young Pakistani exchange student killed in a mass shooting Friday at a high school,
organizers told AFP.The somber ceremony is to take place at an Islamic center in the Texas town of Stafford, not far from Santa Fe High
School, where the shooting took place, the Islamic Society of Greater Houston said in a statement.Ten people -- eight students and two
teachers -- were killed Friday when a shooter identified by police as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis opened fire with a shotgun and a
handgun before surrendering to police."We are still in a state of denial
to Karachi in coming weeks in time for Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.The Islamic Society, in its
statement, called the shooting "an act of terror" and said such events "remind us as to what world we live in, where sanctity of life is not
Houston, 35 miles (55 kilometers) from Santa Fe, are of Pakistani descent