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Two more schools blown up in Bajaur Agency

March 19th, 2010


Militants have blown up two schools on Friday in Bajaur Agency, a private TV reported.
According to the details, two primary schools were blown up in Navagai and Mandil area of Bajaur Agency; meanwhile, security forces disposed a bomb planted in Yousfabad in tehsil Khar.

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Bombing turns school into ‘hell’

March 9th, 2010


LAHORE (AFP) – Noor Mohammad had just sat down with his classmates in the City when a suicide car bomb pulverised part of his school and turned his religious studies class into a living hell.
“We had just assembled in our classroom when it looked as if hell had broken…

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Lahore bomb unleashes school ‘hell’

March 8th, 2010


Noor Mohammad had just sat down with his classmates in Lahore when a huge car bomb pulverised part of his school and turned his religious studies into a living hell.
“We had just assembled in our classroom when it looked as if hell had broken with a huge blast that…

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Boys’ school dynamited in Khyber

March 4th, 2010


PESHAWAR (AFP) – Taliban militants blew up a boys’ school in Khyber, officials said Wednesday.
The boys’ school attack took place overnight in the Spin Qabar area of Khyber, a lawless district that straddles the main supply line for NATO troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. “All four rooms of…

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Six acquitted in PAF bus attack case

March 3rd, 2010


RAWALPINDI – Anti Terrorism Court Rawalpindi has acquitted six persons allegedly involved in the attack on a school bus carrying children of armed forces personnel in Kamra on December 10, 2007. Eight persons including five children were injured in the attack.
The ATC Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan on Tuesday…

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Ulema are united against sectarianism: Rehman Malik

March 1st, 2010


Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that he has been receiving life threats, and added that his appearance in the court in person might also put other people’s life in danger. A new trend of terrorism in sectarian garb has started but the leaders of all religious schools of thought…

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Malik calls meeting for religious harmony

February 28th, 2010


Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has spoke with Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam JUI(F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chairman moon sighting committee Mufti Munib-ur-Rehman and head of Wafaq-ul-Madaris Hanif Jalandhri over sectarian tensions. Malik also summoned a meeting of the religious leaders of all schools of thought to discuss the issue. He called…

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Frustrated strivers in Pakistan turn to Jihad: report

February 28th, 2010


LAHORE, Pakistan — Umar Kundi was his parents’ pride, an ambitious young man from a small town who made it to medical school in the big city. It seemed like a story of working-class success, living proof in this unequal society that a telephone operator’s son could become a doctor.<br…

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Racist school bus drivers refuse to stop for girls in hijab

February 26th, 2010


School bus drivers have been accused of racism after failing to stop for pupils wearing hijabs, Daily Mail reported on Friday.
Young girls have claimed they are being bullied on board for dressing in the traditional veil, which covers the head.
To avoid trouble, ‘cowardly’ drivers are allegedly ignoring pupils…

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Nato admits that deaths of 8 boys were a mistake: report

February 25th, 2010


A night-time raid in eastern Afghanistan in which eight schoolboys from one family were killed was carried out on the basis of faulty intelligence and should never have been authorised, a Times investigation has found.
Ten children and teenagers died when troops stormed a remote mountain compound near the border…

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‘Pakistan week’ in London School of Economics starts

February 22nd, 2010


LONDON-Pakistan Society of London School of Economics Students Union is celebrating ‘Pakistan Week’ from February 22 to 26
The celebrations commenced on Monday morning with run of popular folk dance Bhangra performed by Pakistani students and their friends from different countries here on Monday.
The purpose of organising…

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Punjab government does not intend to levy any tax on private schools: Raja Anwar

February 22nd, 2010


Chairman, Chief Minister’s Taskforce on Elementary Education, Raja Muhammad Anwar has said that keeping in view the increasingly important role of the private sector in the promotion of education; the Punjab government does not intstop of levy any tax on private schools to facilitate them.
He said that committee…

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Militants blow up two boys’ schools in Mohmand: officials

February 21st, 2010


Militants blew up two boys’ schools in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, the latest in a wave of attacks by Islamist extremists targeting educational institutions, local officials said.
No one was hurt in the pre-dawn attacks on the two schools located in the Mohmand tribal region near the Afghan border.
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Two schools and a bridge destroyed in Kohat

February 19th, 2010


Militants destroyed two schools and a bridge in Sheraki and Akhorwal area of Darra Adamkhel in Kohat on Friday. Officials said that militants planted explosive devices on the buildings of the middle school for boys in Akhorwal and the girls’ primary school in Sheraki area and blew them up. A…

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Taliban blow up boys high school in Mohmand: official

February 13th, 2010


Taliban militants blew up a boys high school in Mohmand tribal district on Saturday, an official said.
There were no casualties as the school in the village of Qamardin at Safi area of the Mohmand tribal district, 92 kilometres (57 miles) in northwest of Peshawar, was closed.
“The school was…

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Dir bombing exposes US secret war inside Pakistan: Times

February 8th, 2010


LONDON (Agencies) – The discovery of three American soldiers among the dead in a suicide bombing at the opening of a girls’ school in the town of Dir last week reignited the fears of many Pakistanis that Washington was set on invading their country, according to a report in The…

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School bombing exposes Obama’s secret war inside Pakistan: report

February 7th, 2010


The discovery of three American soldiers among the dead in a suicide bombing at the opening of a girls’ school in Dir last week reignited the fears of many Pakistanis that Washington was set on invading their country.
Barack Obama has banned the Bush-era term “war on terror” and dithered…

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