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| India-Pakistan |
| Education and terror |
| 2015-05-13 |
| [DAWN] Out of 3,400 attacks spread over 110 countries in the time period studied, 724 took place in Pakistain, making up close to a fourth of the entire number. This was so even without including the grisly attack on Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Army Public School in December 2014. Ten per cent of all terrorist attacks in Pakistain targeted schools. The second position was held by Thailand, which experienced 213 attacks -- less than half the number of attacks in Pakistain. According to the report, schools, educational institutions and universities were 88pc more likely to be targeted in the country than the world average, which stands at 69pc. The majority of the attacks on schools (and, once again, this does not include Peshawar) were non-lethal and directed at educational infrastructure. They included most frequently bombs, arson or incendiary devices that were pointed at primary, middle or high schools while the buildings were unoccupied. Three-quarters of the attacks were carried out by "unknown perpetrators" even though the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain took responsibility for 136 of them. The fact that the Peshawar attack was, unlike the many hundred preceding ones, particularly intended to cause a huge loss of life represents an escalation in violence and perhaps an increased desire to target not simply infrastructure but also students -- to deliberately cause the loss of life rather than simply a loss of infrastructure. |
| Posted by:Fred |