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KARACHI: Bodies of a minor girl and boy were found in a school in Karachi's Patel Para area on Tuesday.
According to police, the 16-year-old boy had killed his female matriculate colleague before shooting himself while the assembly session was under way in Gulshan-i-Fatima School in Patel Para. However, mystery prevails as to what really happened.
Police sources add that the boy and girl were reportedly having an affair and the incident was apparently a mutually agreed upon activity as their parents had not allowed them to get married.
The incident appears to have taken place in the class that the boy and the girl attended. It seems to have happened as the rest of the school was in the ground partaking in the daily assembly session.
A 9mm pistol and two shells were recovered from the crime scene.
Police also claims to have recovered two 'suicide notes' allegedly written by the teenagers in which they have apologised to their parents.
The handwriting in the two notes appears identical, raising suspicion that they were written by the same person.
Police sources said the families of both victims and the school administration had been questioned and investigators had found "nothing suspicious about their behaviour".
They added that the police was investigating if and how the male student had managed to acquire a handgun and had brought it inside the school premises.
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Sep 01, 2015 03:41pm
How the teenage boy brought gun inside school premises? Simple, he just put the gun in his bag. As far as I know, schools do not search their students while the students enter school entry gates. So look for how the teenager got hold of the gun.
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Sep 01, 2015 03:49pm
This is what media and films are doing to our youngsters
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Sep 01, 2015 03:49pm
The whole thing need to be investigated, there is something wrong with this picture.
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Sep 01, 2015 03:51pm
some american school like in los angeles area have metal detectors before student enter school..karachi shud have also..for safety
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Sep 01, 2015 03:51pm
What is our next generation up to ?
Is this Love? or they are not allowed to fulfill their Lust ?
Whatever is the case, society is equally responsible along with them.
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Sep 01, 2015 03:52pm
WOW...what a critical topic on police is investigating in. i dont know what to say or laugh on this police statement..
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Sep 01, 2015 03:52pm
The kids have been murdered! No suicide this is just topi drama.
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Sep 01, 2015 03:53pm
Very very sad. There should be a social service where people can turn to in emotionally stressed situations. Both So young.
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Sep 01, 2015 04:09pm
Very sad.
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Sep 01, 2015 04:13pm
Very sad incident,overwhelmed by emotions,they should have thought about their parents before taking (un)justified action.
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Sep 01, 2015 04:16pm
SAD SAD..The failure of our society.Even if they were having an affair this was not the age to get married.These matters must be taken very seriously by the parents and teachers the youth must be helped for healthy mind development.
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Sep 01, 2015 04:17pm
Hats off to the programmes such as re-enactments been telecast on various pvt channels, I would blame the owners of the pvt channels who like to telecast any thing for the ratings, SHAME ON THEM, and they are equal culprits to what is happening in our society
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Sep 01, 2015 04:18pm
with easy access to internet,movies,and when you are in puberty age where hormones are kicking you have all sort of thoughts but lack of religious education where you have been told to put your's gaze down and worldly wise if there are supportive people where a person can go and tell their feeling and if they get any help but above all its their parents who should be
helpful not necessarily giving in but they should not be irrational in their approach to deal with any matters.
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Sep 01, 2015 04:19pm
A sad event indeed !
What surprises me a lot is that the letter written by the kids is in the so called "Roman" Urdu. So the tenth grade children could not write either in English or in Urdu............ and this is true for most of the schools in Pakistan.
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Sep 01, 2015 04:21pm
Investigate thoroughly..
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Sep 01, 2015 04:22pm
Very sadden to hear about the two lovers death, & it has been reported, the suicide notes were written by same person..!! If the suspiousness of concern authourity is true, then, there might be possibility of third person, who would be beneficiery or instigator of this henious crime & did it for his means..
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Sep 01, 2015 04:29pm
A society where the message delivered by the movies, dramas and books is love, doing everything for love, depicting couples madly in love with each other and willing to do everything for their love, the results can't be worst then this.
I was fortunate that even as a teenager, my parents guided me about these things really clearly, guided me to indulge myself and exert my energies in the right direction and for the constructive stuff.
Not many may agree with me but what is it that the kids and teenagers are exposed to? What is it that they are taught day and night on the media? What is it which they are inculcated with in the movies? The results can't be different because you are bringing up these kids, the young minds with the message of lust and love.
And worst of all, the eastern neighbor is producing few movies every year with a Pakistani girl and Indian boy theme, which in my honest view, is going to wreck havoc in a matter of a couple of years.
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Sep 01, 2015 04:32pm
This matter should be investigated properly. How can some one ask their parents to get married at the age of 16. There is something wrong here, and should be looked into. When ever some thing like this happens Police jumps to this conclusion that boy and girl must be having a illicit affair. This has to change.
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Sep 01, 2015 04:39pm
proper investigation is required before jumping to conclusions. i think, someone talking to their colleagues will give them useful and valuable clues.
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Sep 01, 2015 04:40pm
very sad
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Sep 01, 2015 04:42pm
It's the responsibility of Parents not the media to check what their kids are watching on television and elsewhere and tell them right from wrong.If anyone is to be blamed for such behavior of kids its the parents not media or any reality TV.
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Sep 01, 2015 04:45pm
SAD.
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Sep 01, 2015 04:50pm
this is the result of our so called modern education and unnecessary use of cell phones and internet.
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Sep 01, 2015 04:56pm
It is very tragic and an eye-opener incident, we are sowing the seeds of frustration in our younger generations mind-fields, the attraction and glamour being driven on TV screens, the so-called contractors of the modernization of the society at the cost of losing ethical values and familial standards, we shall have to be ready for such incidents, dramas and plays should be written on educating younger generation to learn about the age of having such feelings that too after completing education through parental arrangements.
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Sep 01, 2015 04:56pm
very sad
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Sep 01, 2015 05:04pm
How these kids got a gun?? Who taught them how to use one?? Families of both need to answer..
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Sep 01, 2015 05:10pm
this what happen when kids watch movies .. And the parents does not bother to monitor the kids activities and kids easy escape when mom's are busy watching drama's. Plus easy access and abuse of mobile phones and internet.
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Sep 01, 2015 05:12pm
Dont think how to control means of suicide instead you think about the cause of these incident so that u can find the solution easily..
Govt should allow the marriages when girl or boy get adult and govt should think over about media content which also the cause of these incident.
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Sep 01, 2015 05:23pm
Seems like the boy murdered the girl before committing suicide himself. The girl might not have wanted to die. Same handwriting on both notes reinforces this theory.
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Sep 01, 2015 05:26pm
Gun is more common than roti in pakistan
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Sep 01, 2015 05:32pm
To me seems murder. Killing in movies seems easier than in reality. If guy had shot the girl first he was not going to operate the gun so finely next time killing himself. Should be probed for a murder case.
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Sep 01, 2015 05:54pm
@natey - Yet in America we still hear plenty of stories of killings.
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Sep 01, 2015 06:01pm
Bollywood culture has badly prevailed in our society,after watching indian movies youngsters are taken such initiatives.Very sad.
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Sep 01, 2015 06:11pm
@Umer lovers have been committing suicide for thousands of years. All over the world literature is full of tragic love stories including in our own country - why blame the media and the films.
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Sep 01, 2015 06:12pm
There should be no coeducation for teenage students.
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Sep 01, 2015 06:18pm
he is my friend please don't blame on boy. girl and boy both are in love and why they take boy father to jail. take both father's to jail.
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Sep 01, 2015 06:26pm
A third suspect, most probably another boy who might have a heart on the same girl. He might have not accepted girl's closeness to the deceased boy and took a hidden revenge. Very much a filmy script. Don't forget that the letters were also written by the same person and in an immature handwriting. Handwriting for the whole class needs to be verified. The suspect should not be that sharp at this age. Case should be easily resolved and in no time.
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Sep 01, 2015 06:34pm
They were NOT having an AFFAIR. Affair is when spouses cheat on each other. They were in love and were having a COURTSHIP. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. Islam allows it but the parents must get involved as soon as the couple is in love. Had the parents dealt with it in a mature manner by arranging an engagement or nikah regardless of them being teens, the youngsters would still be alive.
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Sep 01, 2015 06:36pm
How did the boy get the gun? Investigate!!!
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Sep 01, 2015 06:39pm
Police are investigating where the gun came from. Unfortunately, the corrupt police will soon close this case and our society will forget about it.
Pakistan's society has some very noble people however majority are corrupt and even the simple minds due to poverty are mostly drawn towards such crimes. It's a sorry state of affairs in the so called Islamic Republic Of Pakistan. Drugs, alcohol, etc all available openly. Who will hold police responsible for this. A case should be registered against police for not been able to control crime, drugs etc.
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Sep 01, 2015 06:45pm
Bad situation. My condolences to both famlies. This is not the time to blame movies or video games.
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Sep 01, 2015 07:49pm
RIP. What a sorry fate for youngsters. Indian films Zindabad...
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Sep 01, 2015 07:55pm
@IMRAN AHMED
Patel para is a lower class locality and I am sure this school has nothing to do with modern education. These kids' brains must be affected by khalnaik type movies. No proper attention by parents at home, upbringing without ethics and virtues.
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Sep 01, 2015 08:10pm
this is end result our tv and media ... every Urdu drama now a TV is about love ... when I was kid about 25 year ago... we use watch dramas related our social and political issues but now things are change. we wants to be like west...
I am living in west for last 25 years... love is common but on tv because they are not feeding their kids ... we have to think ...what we are feeding to our kids...
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Sep 01, 2015 08:19pm
@yusuf 16 yr olds are minors who can't decide upon marriage. Parents know better what's best for their children. Media encourages such acts and we need to educate our youth to focus on their studies rather than romance. There is an appropriate time for love and frankly 16 isn't rite age for it and for that matter marriage vows.
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Sep 01, 2015 08:19pm
They had no hope of a future.
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Sep 01, 2015 08:22pm
@hasan ... The parents cared more about themselves than their children.
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Sep 01, 2015 08:29pm
With the limited information at hand not much can be said. Regardless, it's a very unfortunate incidence brought upon by a plethora of factors which I will not discuss at length at the moment. I will only speculate on the information at hand..... Preplanned murder suicide by the boy............... period. .....Moral of the story. Gun control needs to be effective.................... Parents need to have more discussions with children about their lives and things happening around them, especially when they are in their late teens, more so if they are being educated in co-education.......................... Frankly speaking co-education, in our society, will flourish in 18 plus educational institutes alone, since at time, by that age, maturity has kicked in.
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Sep 01, 2015 08:30pm
@Zak
You need to look at such places yourself
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Sep 01, 2015 08:33pm
Love has been around long before TV came to the scene: Sassui Punnhun, Heer/Ranjha, Sohni Mahiwal.
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Sep 01, 2015 09:02pm
" how the male student had managed to acquire a handgun and had brought it inside the school premises."
This would be a hilarious comment by the police if the event was not that tragic. Did the police ask as to how the APS terrorists how they managed to get the guns into the school ?
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Sep 01, 2015 10:02pm
Its a co-education curse practised in teen age. The Govt. paerents, School managers should take solud action to eradicate this curse.
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Sep 01, 2015 10:02pm
This is not a simple story of juvenile-love. An age of 16 is not for such desperate love, if at all it was.
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Sep 01, 2015 10:17pm
The main reason is CO-Education at matriculation and college level
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Sep 01, 2015 10:19pm
It is Japanese tradition that when two lovers find life too difficult they commit suicide together. It is called shinzu in Japanese. It is not uncommon in Japan even today.
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Sep 01, 2015 10:25pm
Something of this sort happened 20 yre back in khi. But the guy killed the girl but didnt kill himself and fled to usa, got married there, has kids and living happily after killing the poor girl who gave her life away for him in love....lesson: life is s previous gift of God which should not be lost for anyone...
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Sep 01, 2015 10:59pm
impact of unfiltered raw information going to young absorbent minds of children thru media, internet, video games.
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Sep 01, 2015 11:00pm
Co-education system should be finished in Pakistan due to the fact that now kids have easy access to porm sites on the internet and other sources and learn about sex from a very teder age. Secondly parents must keep a watch on the activities of their children also refraim from watching adult content on television in presence of children. The most important is that parents must educate their children on Islamic principals and also should themself become prime example of practising Muslims for their children.
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Sep 01, 2015 11:05pm
These are the side effect of co education on one hand while on other hand easy access to internet which is useful to great extent but its wrong use lead to puberty quite earlier.ironically parents remains unaware because of little skill. So keep them attached with islamic teaching.
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Sep 01, 2015 11:11pm
@ali sikandar chachar the parents should also have thought about them.
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Sep 01, 2015 11:19pm
It is State's duty to ensure ideological safety and nourishment of the young through control of foreign media, movies, internet an what not. Now that access to such crap is all the more easy, it is all the more important to ensure that what violates our ideals and rightful morals should not be allowed.
Easy and rampant access to every crap from foreign media is what is the cause of such problems. Youngsters think wrong is right and then become indignant and angry when they are told otherwise. "Having an affair" is becoming the norm - should be an eye opener already.
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Sep 01, 2015 11:32pm
This is a gun control issue. The rest is just normal.
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Sep 01, 2015 11:55pm
It's the stupid culture promoted by our media and advertising that leads to something like this. They were too young to know what love really is, and to commit suicide over something like this is just crazy. Parents should also be involved more in children's lives and groom them to be decent human beings capable of making decisions based on right/wrong rather than acting like some 'filmi' characters.
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Sep 02, 2015 12:04am
This is what media and films are doing to our youngsters...!!!!!!
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Sep 02, 2015 12:44am
whoever making media responsible for that must answer one thing: what was the role of media and television, film, Bollywood and Hollywood in the making of Heer Ranjha, Sassi Punhoo, Sohni Maheenwal, Sheeren Farhad, Noori Jam Tamachi etc. These weren't just folk stories. if somebody think so, go and see the grave of Noori Jam Tamachi.
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Sep 02, 2015 12:50am
that happens when parents are not friends to their kids, instead of denying them for marriage they should have been asked to wait.......its a wake up call to have controlled media
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Sep 02, 2015 12:56am
@Hassan
Being in love is not a crime to make someone, even a teenager, an indecent person. Don't make the media a scapegoat. It's the parents responsibility to rescue such relationships of love rather than make it a matter of ego and honor.
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Sep 02, 2015 01:54am
If they were in a love affair, they should not have been pressurized to get separated. They should have been recognized as a ligitimate couple and wed when they would have been eighteen years of age.
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Sep 02, 2015 02:04am
I think the families in Pakistan should respect wishes of the youngsters. They have lived their lives ... let the youngsters live it they way they wish
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Sep 02, 2015 04:28am
For God's sake !!! Teens wanting to get married??? At least get out of school first and try to figure out your life. Youth today must realize that there is more to life than just social media and romance. Twilight Saga is not something to be inspired by. Broaden your vision and start thinking, children.
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Sep 02, 2015 08:46am
@U Saifi why blame the media? why NOT blame the media? have you ever sat down with a family member and seen just the reenactments? have you seen the way love is being portrayed in dramas? your naivete is alarming to say the least!
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Sep 02, 2015 08:48am
This out come of affects of media ,dramas ,films and extensive use of Internet and no observation of parents towards day to day activities of their children . The case needs thorough investigation to unearth actual facts .
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Sep 02, 2015 12:03pm
Someone killed those kids and the heights of stupidity is they want us to believe ... these kids killed each other with the gun
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Sep 02, 2015 12:54pm
@Faraz
Because boy was in possession of 9 mm pistol.
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Sep 02, 2015 01:11pm
@tahir No one forces anyone on a gunpoint to watch any such drama, program on TV. Its the personal decision for a family what to watch and what not to watch.
Definitely the media carries a responsibility, but it is not a excuse for the audience who opt to watch any such content
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Sep 02, 2015 03:52pm
The society, especially the parents are to be equally blamed. It seems that their parents were not of understanding nature. They were rather bruise. For example, if they two were really so loving to each other, their parents should have made them understood that after your studies are finished and you get a job, then for sure we would think and manage seriously and reasonably about your marriage. Instead, they outrightly refused to even think about their affair. On the other hand, committing suicide is not the solution. If they would have been alive now , they would have certainly gotten a chance to make permanent bond with each other sooner or later.
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Sep 02, 2015 04:17pm
There is something mysterious about it for sure.Additionally,this incident leaves me with a no. of questions. Firstly, why they were intending to get married at the age of 16 and 15 when it is understood that it doesnt happen atleast in a city like Karachi when you alrady know that parents of both the parties won't be buying it at all.Plus parents who are sending their children to co-education schools I guess they are mentally prepared for FRIENDSHIPS between opposite genders then why would they be so harsh about it?
There is something behind it for sure my mind can't take it; specially after reading the "SO-SIDAL" note which seems not to be written by the girl or boy since it was found in the school ground and they killed themselves in side the classroom. Suicidal notes are normally beside the dead bodies as far as my "little" knowledge is concerned.So instead of calling it a Romeo and Juliet love story the police I must say investigate it deeply.
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Sep 02, 2015 05:41pm
Poor kids, at this age the minds of kids are rebellion and they are so emotional at this age they were just kids. i dont know the school teachers and parent didnt try to solve the issue and it reach to this extent. I studied in co-education school from pre k to matric and our teachers used to keep eye on these type of couples and i saw many times teachers talking to them.
Kids felt so lonely and the only way they thought is death this clearly shows the communication gap between parents and children. this is making me cry how lonely they felt.
the school, parents and society are equally responsible.
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Sep 02, 2015 08:28pm
As I have gone through the social media since last day, almost all the people are blaming these teenagers. But here scenario is totally changed: our society, media and role of parents is a lot involved in it.
They have done so, as they had seen in movies and dramas. They were not totally mature, merely they were of 16. They 'll consider right, from which they 'll get comfort.
Nowadays, parents have no time to council with children (teenagers). They should tell all the situations (ups and downs) in tenure of teenage. So, that they all 'll be aware of that. But unfortunately, nowadays parents do not teach such things.
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Sep 03, 2015 02:32am
@Farhan are you talking about the St. Patrick's student?
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Sep 03, 2015 04:41am
@Qamer I totally agree with you, Sherlock.
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Sep 03, 2015 04:59am
@Alam Ok Colombo. It seems like you have it all figured.
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Sep 03, 2015 06:34am
@Shahid Khan
Are you suggesting that co education should be banned.
Tomorrow you will suggest working places should not be same
Then you may come up "confine women to four walls "
Back to camel age.
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Sep 03, 2015 07:15am
The parents are the real culprit in this case who had no interest and check on their kids. How could this boy had an access to a handgun? How can a 16 years old have access to a handgun without the knowledge of his parents.
Secondly these ignorant parents failed to address the mental, Psychological and emotional needs of their children. These parents didn't realise that how critical are the teenage years of a child's life where he or she needs a lot of attention and care but their parents simply ignored all their needs and now what they are facing is the end result of their upbringing. These types of parents need a lot of education to realise their own mistakes.
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Sep 03, 2015 12:19pm
i agree with Mr. Khalil there is something wrong and something strange in this story.there are to many questions should ask to their parents and school staff and their friends as well.
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Sep 03, 2015 02:40pm
A very sad incident indeed ,,,
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Sep 03, 2015 09:15pm
It's very bad scene ...
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Sep 03, 2015 09:41pm
@Kiran i agreed
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Sep 03, 2015 09:43pm
it is very sad news about two students
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