Lahore: Five-year-old Eisha wants to go
home as soon as possible to take a ride on her bicycle but
doctors say it will take her some time to fully recover from
the burns she sustained in a twin suicide bombing at a crowded
market in this eastern Pakistani city.
Eisha has been pressing her father to take her home
since she regained consciousness in the emergency ward of
Jinnah Hospital, where she was brought after last night's
devastating terrorist attack that killed 54 and injured 180
others.
"I don't want to stay here. I want to go home
immediately where my playmates are waiting for me with my
bicycle," Eisha told PTI as she lay in a bed at the hospital
with her anxious relatives surrounding her.
The nursery student was unable to understand her
father's reluctance to even give her some chocolate.
"Instead, Baba is asking me to swallow bitter syrups
and tablets," she said angrily.
"You can have chocolate from me," a doctor offered.
"No, I always take chocolates from my father," Eisha
responded.
Eisha was in Moon Market with her aunt and three
cousins when the two powerful blasts occurred.
The explosions triggered a massive blaze that reduced
about 150 shops to ashes.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, December 08, 2009, 23:00