New government school blown up in South Waziristan

[Ryuzaki]

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Militants blew up part of a newly constructed government school in South Waziristan late Friday night, a spokesperson for a wing of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) said on Saturday, the latest in a string of attacks on educational institutions.

No one was hurt in the blast in Pakistan’s restive tribal belt, but 18 labourers working on the site were abducted, said Azam Tariq, a spokesperson for an arm of the TTP known as the “Sajna” group, which claimed responsibility for the attack.

He said the workers were released a short time later.

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“We have blown up the school because it was a government installation,” said Tariq, warning the group would continue to attack government targets.

Twenty people were killed and dozens wounded last month when militants launched an attack on Bacha Khan University in K-P, a little more than a year after Taliban gunmen massacred 134 students at the Army Public School in Peshawar.

The Peshawar school attack was seen as having hardened Pakistan’s resolve to fight militants along its border with Afghanistan.

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Officials in South Waziristan said the girls’ wing of the school in the Tehsil Tiarza area was damaged in Friday’s blast, as well as some heavy machinery being used for ongoing construction at the site.

In a separate incident in Mohmand tribal area to the north, security officials killed five militants during a clash near Mohmand Agency’s administrative headquarters on Saturday.

The militants were planning an attack in the area, a security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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A generation of Pakistani militants have used the tribal region to launch attacks on the Pakistani state and US-led forces in Afghanistan.

The Pakistani Taliban are fighting to topple the government and install a strict interpretation of Islamic law.

They are loosely allied with the Afghan Taliban who ruled most of Afghanistan until they were overthrown by US-backed military action in 2001.

New government school blown up in South Waziristan - The Express Tribune

 

[Pomegranate]

what do you care ????? Half of these Foreign Agents are already hanged ...the remaining are in the waiting list .. we know which agency is doing it and they will pay for it .

 

[Zibago]

Incidents like this are the reason behind low literacy rate of FATA

 

[That Guy]

An educated mind, is a mind these terrorists cannot brainwash.

PA needs to do something to stop the flow of terrorists from Afghanistan. Simply kicking them out is no good, they simply set up base across the border, and launch attacks from there. The border must be secured.

 

[Dubious]

An educated mind, is a mind these terrorists cannot brainwash.

Recent research has actually shown some really educated people getting into that ditch....Less to do with education now and more to do with social justice....

If you are biased based on : colour, caste, class or whatever BS you can find, you are gonna find yourself in the middle of an uproar....and when that happens the person who spits the most at those who drove you down with injustice will have the biggest army!

 

[Moonlight]

Recent research has actually shown some really educated people getting into that ditch....Less to do with education now and more to do with social justice....

If you are biased based on : colour, caste, class or whatever BS you can find, you are gonna find yourself in the middle of an uproar....and when that happens the person who spits the most at those who drove you down with injustice will have the biggest army!

Unfortunately, doctors, engineers, universities students, lecturers are falling into this net.
The reason is, today we all are running behind the education. But education without wisdom. Holding a degree in hand does NOT make one wise or even knowledgeable. It's becoming hard day by day to differentiate between wrong and right, I think.

 

[GoldenRatio1618]

we should start to seal the entire western border on priority basis every year and one day it will complete and when it will be totally sealed then it will be easy to crush all funded terrorests, their master minds, sponsors etc.

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

An educated mind, is a mind these terrorists cannot brainwash.

PA needs to do something to stop the flow of terrorists from Afghanistan. Simply kicking them out is no good, they simply set up base across the border, and launch attacks from there. The border must be secured.

I can only wish if you were there among power corridors of Pakistan.....Border must be secured AT ALL COST.

There is no way out ! ! ! ! !

 

[Areesh]

Border must be secured. FATA should be made a province with rule of Pakistani law. Unless we do this, this kind of sh!t would keep happening in FATA.

 

[true]

Pakistanis killing Pakistanis day by day these terrorists are getting too despite for attention , if they hate Pakistan attack the military not freaking schools , don't drag innocent people into it .

 

[rockstar08]

An educated mind, is a mind these terrorists cannot brainwash.

you are mistaken ...

 

[Imran Khan]

a gya islami qabaili ilaqa te chaa gya islami qabaili ilaqa

 

[Areesh]

Pakistanis killing Pakistanis day by day these terrorists are getting too despite for attention , if they hate Pakistan attack the military not freaking schools , don't drag innocent people into it .

First of all no was killed. Secondly go worry about haryana. Already 10 Indians have been killed by Indians till now.

 

[Nazar Marri]

Not sure how this is going to end

 

[NP-complete]

Mind of a terrorist is hard to apprehend. So much opportunity in this world and they are up to such things. Stranger because these people have such zeal which is exactly whats required to succeed in life.