{"id":6757,"date":"2022-03-07T12:44:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T12:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2022-03-07T12:44:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T12:44:46","slug":"aps-massacre-survivor-ahmad-nawaz-elected-president-of-oxford-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/aps-massacre-survivor-ahmad-nawaz-elected-president-of-oxford-union\/","title":{"rendered":"APS massacre survivor Ahmad Nawaz elected president of Oxford Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-area\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/403428-aps-massacre-survivor-ahmad-nawaz-elected-president-of-oxford-union\">\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Ahmad Nawaz, a survivor of the Army Public School massacre of 2014 as been elected president of the Oxford University\u2019s debating society Oxford Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is the most monumental and history-making moment of my life! I am so extremely proud to announce that I have been elected president of the Oxford Union, one of the world\u2019s biggest and historical platforms!\u201d tweeted Nawaz on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is the most monumental &amp; history making moment of my life!<\/p>\n<p>I am so extremely proud to announce that I have been Elected President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OxfordUnion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OxfordUnion<\/a> \u2728One of world\u2019s biggest &amp; historical platforms!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m eternally grateful to everyone who supported me in this Journey\u2026\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R90si4FurP\">pic.twitter.com\/R90si4FurP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ahmad Nawaz (@Ahmadnawazaps) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ahmadnawazaps\/status\/1500526538009239558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nawaz said that he was \u201ceternally grateful\u201d to everyone who supported him in getting elected. He was also \u201cextremely grateful\u201d to his parents who have been supportive of everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I am grateful to] my friends who have been with me throughout this journey. And finally, my team, who have worked so exceptionally hard to make this truly historical moment happen!\u201d said Nawaz as he thanked everyone.<\/p>\n<p>On December 16, 2014, 147 people, including 132 schoolchildren, were massacred in the deadliest terrorist attack in Pakistan\u2019s history when terrorists stormed the Army Public School in Peshawar Cantonment and opened indiscriminate fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nawaz, one of the survivors of the attack, had lost his brother Haris and many friends on that fateful day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">However, the 20-year-old never let the attack stop him from pursuing his studies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In 2020, he had secured a place to study at the University of Oxford \u2014 the alma mater of many notable Pakistanis, including Malala Yousufzai, Prime Minister Imran Khan, late Benazir Bhutto, and many others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Apart from studying at Oxford, Nawaz is a human rights campaigner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"ads mb20 ads-bg\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1523347432315-11\" data-google-query-id=\"COnC9Kr7s_YCFQW0jwodkckLpg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Ahmad Nawaz, a survivor of the Army Public School massacre of 2014 as been elected president of the Oxford University\u2019s debating society Oxford Union. \u201cToday is the most monumental and history-making moment of my life! I am so extremely proud to announce that I have been elected president of the Oxford Union, one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4990,4991,4994,4992,4080],"class_list":["post-6757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-ahmad-nawaz","tag-army-public-school","tag-oxford-union","tag-oxford-university","tag-pakistans-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}