HOUSTON: Funeral prayers for Sabika Sheikh — the Karachi-born exchange student who was shot dead Friday evening in Texas during the Santa Fe massacre — were offered at a local mosque in Houston on Sunday after Namaz-e-Zuhr.
The funeral service, scheduled by the Pakistani Consulate in Houston at Sugar Land’s Masjid Sabireen, was separate from the one to be held in the teenage student’s hometown of Karachi, which her family, friends, and relatives will attend.
Thousands of people, including officials of the Pakistani Consulate in Houston as well as local members of the United States Congress, attended the funeral alongside members of the Pakistani diaspora and students of Santa Fe High School.
Mayor of Houston Sylvester Turner tweeted a message saying: “On his We must put our prayers to work, changing laws and policies to protect schools. Otherwise more children will die.”
