KARACHI, Sept 19: Sporting a soccer player’s kit, eight-year-old Mohid Khan, lovingly called Sonu, was probably thinking of winning another cup in his school’s sports day when he along with his mother, a teacher in the same institution, got off from their car to enter the Washington International School on Monday morning.

However, their lives came to a sudden and tragic end when a suicide bomber targeted the house of a senior police officer in the Defence area.

The 33-year-old mother, Mumtaz Niazi, who had married around nine years back but separated from her husband within months of her marriage and had been living at her parents’ place, did not remarry as her life revolved around her only child, Sonu.

She took up a teaching job in his school so that she could be near her child.

Her younger sister, Shehnaz Niazi, who had dropped the mother and the boy at the school gate, was still nearby when the explosion occurred.

She sustained injuries and was left with a fractured arm. They used to leave their Bhitai Colony house every morning and after dropping the mother and the child at the school, the aunt, also a teacher, proceeded to her school, which is located near the DHA Girls College.

Sonu’s uncle, Azizullah, an employee at the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant, told Dawn that the mother and the son were inseparable throughout their life and even death could not separate them as they remained together till their last breath.

He, however, regretted that none of the government officials had even bothered to come and express their condolences over the deaths of the innocent, who were not the targets of terrorists and just living their lives in a normal manner.

Meanwhile, the funeral prayers for the mother and the son were offered at Ibrahim Masjid in Bhitai Colony and the burial took place in the DHA Phase II graveyard.

Soyem will be held at Farooq-i-Azam Masjid in Bhitai Colony on Wednesday after Zuhar prayers.