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| Militants blow up girls' school in Khyber |
| 2009-11-06 |
| [Dawn] Militants blew up a girls' school in the Khyber district on Thursday, the second such attack in the region in four days, officials said. 'Militants used 25 to 30 kilograms of explosives to blow up the two-storey school on the outskirts of Bara town,' local administration official Farooq Khan told AFP. Khan said the school had 26 rooms in all, including a science laboratory, adding that the explosion completely destroyed eight rooms. Another senior administration official Shafeer Ullah confirmed the incident. The new attack came four days after twin bombs ripped through an 18-room government high school for girls at Kari Gar village in Khyber wounding four people in neighbouring homes. Militants have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in the northwest of the country in recent years. Nearly 200 schools were destroyed in the Swat valley alone during a two-year Taliban uprising to enforce sharia law in the district. Authorities last month shut schools across Pakistan following a suicide attack on a university campus in Islamabad, although most have since reopened. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 I wonder if this was one of Craig Mortenson's girl's schools. My wife and I have attended Greg's seminars and lectures, plus we support his school building/funding efforts. He did say at one of his talks that they had been fairly lucky so far as to not loosing a school to the militants, but it wasn't so much 'if' it would happen, but 'when'. Sad, sad, sad. Apparently there were no children inside at the time, which is a releif of sorts. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-11-06 16:00 |
| #3 the faster these girls/women become educated the faster these asshats lose their control of them. |
| Posted by: 746 2009-11-06 12:07 |
| #2 They're eliminating competition to the madrassas. Which makes them look really bad, if the description of the equipment and scale of the school tracks. "Why're the wimmincattle getting 25 rooms and a laboratory, when we're getting two rooms and a stack of cheap Saudi editions of the koran?" |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-11-06 10:47 |
| #1 I wonder if this was one of Craig Mortenson's girl's schools. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2009-11-06 04:22 |