Targeting education: High School for Boys blown in up FR Peshawar

Suspected militants detonate three bombs planted in the school, which completely destroyed the building.


Umer Farooq June 05, 2013
It was the only high school providing local boys education until matriculation.

PESHAWAR: Suspected militants blew up the Government High School for boys in Sra Dargai, Kandao area of Frontier Region (FR) Peshawar, where a military operation to root out anti-state elements is currently underway.

Local residents told The Express Tribune that suspected militants detonated the school building by planting three bombs on different walls of the school, adding the explosion has further panicked local tribesmen.

“It was around 10pm when the explosions occurred. We rushed outside our houses and saw the school building was no longer visible,” a local said, requesting anonymity. He added that it was the only high school providing local boys education until matriculation.

This is not the first time a school in Kandao has been destroyed. The Government Girls Higher Secondary School in Samand Khan Kaley, Kandao was also blown up, which resulted in many local female students abandoning their education since most parents cannot bear the cost of sending their daughters to the provincial capital of Peshawar.

Earlier, Government Higher Secondary School for Boys Adezai and Government High School for Boys Sherkera also met the same fate when suspected militants reduced both school buildings to rubbles.

Kandao is located nearly 80 kilometres south of Peshawar.

COMMENTS (5)

Nauman | 10 years ago | Reply

Drones.....where are you when you are needed? Or are we still confused about whether these were the good Taliban or the bad Takiban?

Ash | 10 years ago | Reply

Negotiating with terrorists is a dangerous game, I was very much against it but it certainly paid off with Ireland. Why are they so against EDUCATION, here we have many well educated Pakistanis` Doctors for instance. The National Health Service here would be lost without our Asian DOCS. And you know they send money home to their families. And a lot of them go back home after a stint here.

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