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| Attendance at Swat girls' schools plummets after bombing, threats |
| 2007-10-04 |
| The bombing of a girls school and a deluge of threatening letters issued to numerous other girls schools by militants in Swat district have forced girls and their teachers to stay away from school premises, Daily Times learnt on Wednesday. A Swat district Education Department official told Daily Times that girl schools in the area were receiving a deluge of threatening letters and menacing people kept roaming around the schools. He said attendance at girls schools had dropped to nearly 20-25 percent and was dropping further. The government has officially closed only one school, he said: the Government Girls Higher Secondary School Kabal which was bombed. In the other schools, teachers and students had stopped attending after receiving threats, but the administration had asked them to reopen the schools, he added. “Officially, a school is closed when the department issues a notice, but in this case the teachers and students have stopped attending out of fear,” he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Look for a few copycats here, around exam time. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-10-04 07:50 |