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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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.
Local…
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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 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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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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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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A landslide killed at least 11 people in central Mexico on Friday, adding to 18 deaths this week from severe and unseasonable winter storms that closed schools and freeways and flooded thousands of homes.
Ten men and a woman died in Mexico State after mud and boulders loosened by heavy…
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