Pakistan: The lone survivor of the massacred class 9 in the Peshawar school attack

Karachi: Peshawar stands shocked and so does Dawood Ibrahim who is alive only because he attended a wedding on Monday night and his alarm did not work in the morning.

As reported by The Express Tribune, Dawood would have been another body in the pile, a plus-one in the death toll of the terrorist attack at the Army Public School on Warsak Road in Peshawar, had it not been for an incredible piece of fortune.

Fifteen-year-old Dawood, could not wake up on time and had to skip school. He is the only survivor of his school's ninth grade class. He has now buried six of his closest friends in one day. The shock has rendered him speechless and he is showing no emotion. "Dawood isn't talking to anyone, he isn't talking at all," his elder brother Sufyan Ibrahim said. "He is in judo and is a tough child but he is showing no emotion at all right now. He just attended funerals the entire day. No one from his class survived. Every single one of them was killed."

Sufyan also revealed the reason why his brother was not in school that day. "Dawood is lucky. He missed school today because we attended a wedding last night, and he overslept; it was fate."

Pakistan Judo Federation secretary Masood Ahmed added that Dawood is not the only one affected and all the athletes in the ongoing U16 national camp in Peshawar are ready to donate their blood to the injured.

The silence of an alarm clock saved a life and the silence of Dawood now needs to wake up many.

At least 151 Pakistanis, most of them children, were killed in the broad daylight attack on the military-run school on Tuesday, an assault lauded by Taliban insurgents as revenge for the killings of their own relatives by the Pakistani army.

Gunfire, smoke and dead bodies were strewn across the school's halls and corridors, with crazed militants rushing from room to room shooting randomly at pupils and adults on Tuesday.

Pakistanis may be used to almost daily terror attacks against the security forces but an outright assault on children stunned the country, prompting commentators to call for a tough military response.