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Girl in Pulitzer-winning picture still has nightmares.
Tarana Akbari, 11, no longer wears her best dress, which was drenched in her own blood and that of her relatives who were among 70 people who died around her at a religious festival on December 6 last year.
Tarana still cries sometimes when she remembers that day, but she managed an occasional shy smile in an interview with AFP at her modest home on Tuesday, as she cuddled her sisters, who were both wounded in the blast.
That her picture has been featured on newspaper front pages around the world means little to her, she says, with a small shrug and a fleeting smile.
But when she first saw the searing image she wondered: “How come I am alive. I can see all the dead bodies around me but only I survived.”
The great sufi’s whom i look upto & love so much till this day.Syekh Adnan Kabbani,Syekh Nazim Haqqani & Syekh Hisham Kabbani..If i never have met them a couple of years back & got their guidance i wonder what would my life be like today. All their doa’s,barakah,zikir’s are kept close to my heart as a reminder of where i stand as a servant of god…Syekh Nazim once quoted “Doubt comes from pride.You doubt when you are not humble enough to believe.
“We ask to be no-one and nothing. For, as long as we are someone,we are not complete.” - Sheikh Nazim Al-Haqqani Rahmatullahi ‘alayh