Taliban blow up school, homes in Bajaur: official

Taliban militants blew up a boys’ school and the houses of six pro-government tribal elders in troubled northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, a local official said Wednesday. The incidents took place late Tuesday in the tribal region of Bajaur, where government troops have been engaged in fierce fighting with extremist rebels since launching an operation last August. “A government-run boys’ school and houses of six pro-government elders were blown up in different parts of

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