Running for a cause


Running for a cause
Screenshot: A message of thanks for solidarity

A group of Indian and Pakistani runners at a marathon honor the Peshawar Army Public School children martyred in the attack of Dec 16, 2014

At the marathon: Kuldeep Gill and his daughter Sadgi

At the marathon: Kuldeep Gill and his daughter Sadgi

When a group of Pakistani Americans announced that they were running for a cause at a marathon last Saturday in Washington DC, Indians runners joined them in solidarity and support.

The cause: “Honoring the Lives of our Children martyred in Peshawar School Attack.”

At the over 20 km long ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll DC Marathon’, at which many of the 25,000 participants ran for different causes, this group of Indians and Pakistanis ran wearing t-shirts to honor and in remembrance of the Peshawar school children.

Their motive: “to show our solidarity with the families of the victims of Peshawar School Attack, and show the world, that we will never forget their sacrifice”.

On learning about the Indians’ participation, Mohammad Jibran Nasir?, the young lawyer who is spearheading the civil society movement in Pakistan against terrorism sent them a video message from Karachi, that he posted to their Facebook event: “a very special thank you to all our Indian friends who are running the marathon”.

The Indians’ participation, he said, is sending out “a very strong message of peace and solidarity and letting the world know that whatever may be our differences, we are united against terrorism…

“Efforts like yours, wherever they may be coming from in the world are rekindling our spirits, motiving us, increasing our resolve to pursue our at movement with much more vigour, to take on the Taliban, to take on the banned outfits and to force the government to start a crackdown against them.”

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