Faheem Shah, a grade 12 pupil from Charsadda, on Friday confessed to killing Hafiz Sareer Ahmed — his college's principal — after being rebuked for missing classes.
In a confessional assertion, recorded throughout the courtroom docket of Judicial Magistrate-I Attaullah Jan, Faheem acknowledged that he was attending a Mehfil-i-Milad in his village when some of us requested him to accompany them to the protest at Faizabad.
He acknowledged that he accepted the invitation and spent a night on the sit-in sooner than returning to Charsadda. Nonetheless, even after returning from the sit-in, he did not attend programs and remained absent from his college for just some days, for which he was censured by his principal.
"After being censured for skipping school, in anger I took a pistol and opened fired and killed the principal,” the arrested pupil's confession acknowledged.
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 varsity 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 acknowledged.