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India-Pakistan
Militants blow up girls' school in Mohmand
2011-11-12
[Dawn] Militants blew up a government-run school in Haleemzai tehsil of Mohmand
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
tribal region on Thursday, official sources said.

They said that unidentified forces of Evil planted improvised explosives device at a girls` primary school in Malik Nader Khwajawas Kor at the night between Wednesday and Thursday.

The device went off with a bang, destroying two rooms of the school completely and damaging another, they added.

About 350 girl students will be deprived of getting education if alternative arrangements are not made for them.

More than 83 schools have been destroyed in Mohmand Agency after spillover of militancy into the region, affecting over 20,000 students.

Schools were reopened recently in Biazai tehsil after three years while in tehsil Safi educational institutions were reopened after four years, said Agency Education Officer Said Mohammad Khan. He said that students of the destroyed schools had no other option but to attend classes in tents, hujras and mosques.

The Levies and Khasadar personnel conducted search operation in the village after the incident and demolished houses of two suspects identified as Pir Zada and Tariq.

Scores of locals including the landowner were tossed in the calaboose under the collective territorial responsibility clause of FCR after the blast.

Meanwhile,
...back at the sandwich shop, Caroline was experimenting with ingredients of increasing volatility...
the chief of peace committee of Kohat division has said that Taliban can get control of the region if government continues to ignore needs and requirements of the volunteers.

Salamat Khan Orakzai, the chief of anti-Taliban lashkar raised by government in 2009 for Orakzai Agency
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
, Hangu and Kohat, said that they closed their training centre in Hangu owing to financial constraints.

He said that they fought against Death Eaters alongside army and seized weapons worth millions of rupees from them. "We have also tossed in the calaboose forces of Evil and handed them over to security forces," he added.

Talking to journalists, Mr Orakzai said that so far their 13 volunteers had been killed and five maimed but none of them had been compensated.

He said that police were harassing their volunteers that could lead to dismantling of the lashkar and Kohat division could fall into the hands of jihad boys.
Posted by:Fred

#1  But, But, Mualims aren't supposed to harm other Muslims?
Are they?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2011-11-12 00:36  

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