DHAKA: British boxer Amir Khan on Monday visited the Pakistani school where Taliban gunmen slaughtered 150 people, including 134 children, to pay his respects to the victims.

The World Boxing Council welterweight world champion, who has Pakistani roots, has pledged to help rebuild the Army Public School in the north-western city of Peshawar, the scene of Pakistan’s deadliest terror attack.

He offered prayers at a memorial to the dead at the school gates and said he wanted to visit the city despite security concerns to show solidarity.

‘The main reason I’ve come to Pakistan was to come to Peshawar and see the parents and the children and give the children the confidence to go back to school,’ he told reporters, according to The Straits Times.

BDST: 2112 HRS, DEC 29, 2014