Boxer Amir Khan Donates £30k Gold Shorts To Peshawar School Attacked By Taliban

Amir Khan Gifts £30k Gold Shorts To Taliban Attack School
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Amir Khan, left, and Devon Alexander pose after a weigh-in Friday, Dec. 12, 2014, in Las Vegas. The two are scheduled to fight in a welterweight bout Saturday in Las Vegas.(AP Photo/John Locher)
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British boxing champion Amir Khan has become the latest star to lend a hand to the Peshawar school were children were massacred by the Taliban.

The WBA champ has donated a pair of shorts worth £30,000 to a charity. All proceeds will go to rebuilding the school and bolstering security.

Khan, who is of Pakistani heritage, wore shorts threaded with 24-carat gold thread in his second welterweight title fight with Devon Alexander last week.

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Khan blocks a hook from Alexander

"We're very lucky in England. We have good security and I will be able to send my little girl to school and know she will be fine but in Pakistan you cannot do that," Khan told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"They send the kids outside the house and don't know if they are going to come back. It's very sad to know that."

More than 140 children and staff were shot dead by Taliban members at the Pakistan school last week.

17 Evocative Images From Peshawar
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Pakistani Sayed Shah, shows a picture of his son Zulqarnain, 17, a student who was killed in last Tuesday's Taliban attack on a military-run school, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. The Taliban massacre that killed more than 140 people, mostly children, at a military-run school in northwestern Pakistan left a scene of heart-wrenching devastation, pools of blood and young lives snuffed out as the nation mourned and mass funerals for the victims got underway. (credit:(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen))
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Damages inside the Army Public School attacked last Tuesday by Taliban gunmen, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. (credit:(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen))
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A Pakistan woman takes pictures of a faculty room of the Army Public School, attacked Tuesday by Taliban militants, as she visits the school Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 in Peshawar, Pakistan. (credit:(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad))
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Pakistani students, Waqar Ahmad, left, and Uwais Naser, who survived last Tuesday's Taliban attack on a military-run school, stand at the site, one holding a picture of their headmaster Tahira Kazi, 58, who was killed in the attack, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. (credit:(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen))
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Aurangzeb Shaharyar on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, shows a picture of his son Hasan Zeb who was killed in Tuesday's Taliban attack on a military-run school in Peshawar, Pakistan. At cemeteries across the Pakistani city of Peshawar, families lowered the rough wooden coffins of young boys and their teachers into the cold ground and gathered under funeral tents or at home. (credit:(AP Photo/B.K. Bangash))
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Local residents place candles around portraits of the victims killed in Tuesday's Taliban attack on a military-run school in Peshawar, at a ceremony in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. (credit:(AP Photo/Anjum Naveed))
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Pakistani Christian children take part in a prayers ceremony for victims killed in Tuesday's Taliban attack on a military-run school in Peshawar, at Our Lady of Fatima Church, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. (credit:(AP Photo/Anjum Naveed))
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Pakistani Christians take part in a prayers ceremony for victims killed in Tuesday's Taliban attack on a military-run school in Peshawar, at St. Patrick Cathedral in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. (credit:(AP Photo/Fareed Khan))
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People light candles to pay tribute to the students killed in Tuesday's Taliban attack on a military-run school in Peshawar, during a candlelight vigil near a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. Dozens of human rights activists rallied against a pro-Taliban cleric outside his Islamabad mosque to condemn him for not speaking against the militants who killed 148 people, mostly children, in Peshawar. (credit:(AP Photo/B.K. Bangash))
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An Indian girl lights a candle during a prayer meeting in memory of the victims of Tuesday's Taliban attack in Peshawar, in Mumbai, India,Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. The Pakistani government and military vowed a stepped up campaign aimed at rooting out militant strongholds in the country's tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan after a Taliban massacre that killed more than 140 people, mostly children, on a military-run school. (credit:(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool))
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Indians lights candles during a prayer meeting in memory of the victims of Tuesday's Taliban attack in Peshawar, in Mumbai, India,Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. The Pakistani government and military vowed a stepped up campaign aimed at rooting out militant strongholds in the country's tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan after a Taliban massacre that killed more than 140 people, mostly children, on a military-run school. (credit:(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool))
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Pakistanis hold candle light vigil in front of the press club in Islamabad, Pakistan, on December 18, 2014, in memory of the victims of the Taliban assault on an army-run school in the north western city of Peshawar. (credit:(Photo by Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images))
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Pakistan police officers stand guard as people rally to condemn Tuesday's Taliban attack on a military-run school in Peshawar, while other people hold a candlelight vigil near a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. Dozens of human rights activists rallied against a pro-Taliban cleric outside his Islamabad mosque to condemn him for not speaking against the militants who killed 148 people, mostly children, in Peshawar. (credit:(AP Photo/B.K. Bangash))
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A picture showing schoolchildren playing is left on a car, inside the Army Public School attacked last Tuesday by Taliban gunmen, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. (credit:(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen))
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A Pakistan army soldier stands guard in the Army Public School, attacked Tuesday by Taliban militants, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 in Peshawar, Pakistan. (credit:(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad))
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A Pakistani army officer, stands in front of a wall riddled with bullet marks, inside the Army Public School attacked last Tuesday by Taliban gunmen, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. (credit:(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen))
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A Pakistani child attends a protest to condemn Tuesday's Taliban attack on the Army Public School, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 in Peshawar, Pakistan. (credit:(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad))