Faheem Shah, a grade 12 pupil from Charsadda, on Friday confessed to killing Hafiz Sareer Ahmed — his school's principal — after being rebuked for missing classes.
In a confessional assertion, recorded inside the courtroom of Judicial Magistrate-I Attaullah Jan, Faheem talked about that he was attending a Mehfil-i-Milad in his village when some people requested him to accompany them to the protest at Faizabad.
He talked about that he accepted the invitation and spent a night on the sit-in sooner than returning to Charsadda. Nonetheless, even after getting back from the sit-in, he did not attend classes and remained absent from his school for a few days, for which he was censured by his principal.
"After being censured for skipping faculty, in anger I took a pistol and opened fired and killed the principal,” the arrested pupil's confession talked about.
He recalled that Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel had arrested him on the spot, recovered the pistol and handed him over to the police.
"I am very ashamed of my movement," he concluded.
Earlier, the scholar, whereas being arrested, had appeared to justify the murder saying he believed the school principal had devoted blasphemy.
It was not immediately clear what had prompted that price.
"I have been taught... to kill... to not be afraid. Don't be afraid of disrespecting the one who [commits blasphemy]," the scholar talked about.