Friends and teachers of Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistani woman accused along with her husband of shooting dead 14 people in California last week, have expressed shock and astonishment over the incident, saying that she was quite 'normal' and a 'hard working' student at Multan's Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU).
According to the Dawn, the classmates and teachers of the 29-year-old woman say they cannot believe their soft-spoken friend could take such a horrible step and that she was a hard-working student at the BZU (2008 to 2012) who wanted to be a scientist in pharmacognosy.
"She was as lively as a girl of her age could be. She was aware of the affairs of her university mates which I had never noticed. I can't believe that such a lively girl could indulge in such activity. In those days she was not an extremist, not even a practising Muslim, other than wearing veil. I never saw her saying prayers or reciting Quran," one of her classmates was quoted as saying.
Dr Ghulam Shahbeer Baloch, a focal person for the BZU, said that she was a 'normal' student who never got herself involved in any 'objectionable' activity.
Meanwhile, an investigation is underway trying to find the links into what radicalised Tashfeen and her husband Rizwan Farook.
Tashfeen went to the United States on a fiancee visa and spent extended periods of time in both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
