LAHORE: Educational institutions of the city organised seminars, walks and debates to pay tribute to the martyrs of Army Public School, Peshawar.

As many as 132 students and 17 staff members were killed when six militants affiliated with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan attacked the schoolon Dec 16, 2014.

Government College University (GCU) students and faculty members organised a walk in connection with the fifth anniversary of the APS massacre.

Federal Ombudsperson for Protection against Harassment Kashmala Tariq also partici-pated in the walk which started from Clock Tower and ended at the Main Gate.

Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Asghar Zaidi said time could never heal or make us forget the children who went to school and never came back. He announced establishing a memorial garden for APS martyrs on the new campus of the GCU.

Ms Kashmala Tariq along the vice chancellor also planted a tree on the university campus in the name of APS martyrs.Later, one-minute silence was also observed by the participants in the walk in the memory of APS victims.

University of Education Lahore also organised a seminar and a walk to pay tribute to the children and staff membersof the APS.

Punjab government spokesperson Hashim Dogar, UoE Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Talat Naseer Pasha, faculty members and students attended the seminar and the walk.

Mr Dogar said the APS attack was one of the black chapters of the history of the country and it had united the nation.

He said steps were being taken to end extremism from educational institutions to save the future generations.

Mr Pasha said the students should play their role in rejecting extremism and maintaining peacein the country.

Later, different student activists organised a vigil at Liberty Chowk to pay tribute to children of the APS.