HOUSTON – The funeral prayers of Sabika Sheikh, the Pakistani exchangestudent killed in Texas’s Santa Fe High School shooting on Friday, wasoffered at the Brand Lane Islamic Center in Houston on Sunday.
Large number of members of Pakistani community, Pakistan Council GeneralAisha Farooqi, Mayor Houston and members of US Congress also attended thefuneral.
Arrangements were also made for Quran Khwani for the departed soul at themosque in Houston.
Sheikh Sheikh was one of the 10 people killed in the Texas’s Santa Fe HighSchool shooting on Friday morning. Sabika was an exchange student withYouth Exchange and Study (YES) programme, which is funded by the U.S. StateDepartment. It provides scholarships for secondary-school students fromcountries with significant Muslim populations to spend one academic year inthe US.