Taliban bomb four schools in Mohmand Agency

No one was injured in the pre-dawn blasts in the district.


Afp February 28, 2013
Taliban attacks have now destroyed more than 100 schools. PHOTO: AFP/FILE

PESHAWAR: Suspected Taliban militants bombed four boys' schools in Mohmand Agency on Thursday, officials said, in the latest attack on government educational institutions.

No one was injured in the pre-dawn blasts in the district, where officials said Taliban attacks have now destroyed more than 100 schools.

"Militants from TTM (Tehreek-e-Taliban Mohmand) blew up the buildings of four schools at around 2:30am," an intelligence official in Mohmand told AFP.

Liaqat Ali, a government official, confirmed the incident and told AFP that militants planted locally made explosives to dynamite the school buildings.

"All the four schools were completely destroyed, the number of schools destroyed in Mohmand is now more than 100," Ali said.

Militants opposed to co-education have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in northwest Pakistan in recent years.

COMMENTS (3)

Abdullah khan | 11 years ago | Reply The ET readers knows that I am present in the field. It is fake name. There is no TTM. Mohmands are not taliban. All mohmands have two houses one in FATA the other is in settle area of peshawar division. The FATA people call them dwa koora. Majority of mohmand Elders were killed by Taliban. One Elder of mohmand who were also x-MnA of mohmand were killed by taliban. The mohmand hate them. The taliban is present in Salim Safi (a journalist) safi tehsil. Safis are not mohmand. there majority tribes members are living in Afghanistan.
VINOD | 11 years ago | Reply

"Taliban militants bombed four boys’ schools in Mohmand Agency on Thursday, officials said, in the latest attack on government educational institutions." And APC wants to talk to them. Hose game plan is this?

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