The incident comes two weeks after the massacre of 150 people at an army-run school in 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.
, where 134 children were among the victims bumped off by heavily-armed Talibs.
Tuesday's pre-dawn arson attacks took place in two villages in the
Kurram tribal district...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
, where Taliban krazed killer activity and violence between Shiite and Sunni Moslems are rife.
Amjad Ali Khan, the district's top administrative official, told Agence La Belle France Presse the attackers had doused furniture with petrol before setting it ablaze.
All the wooden benches and desks along with school records were destroyed and buildings were damaged, Khan said.
No group immediately grabbed credit but Khan blamed "militants" for the latest attacks.
Taliban and other bully boyz opposed to girls' education and secular schooling more generally have in the past bombed and torched hundreds of schools in northwest Pakistain.
No one was hurt in Tuesday's attack as schools are closed for winter vacations, which authorities have extended until January 12 after the Peshawar massacre amid threats of more violence.
Originally schools were due to reopen on January 3.