Peshawar: A co-educational school on the
outskirts of this troubled northwestern Pakistani city was
blown up on Sunday by Taliban militants, second such incident
within a week.
The privately owned co-educational school located
near Mathra village on the outskirts of the capital of the
North West Frontier Province was blown up at 3.30 am, the
police said. Two rooms and a verandah of the school building
collapsed after the blast.
The school is situated on Warsak road, which connects
Peshawar to Mohmand Agency. There are several private schools
and colleges in the area.
Militants on December 14 had blown up a state-run
girls school in Pakistan's restive Khyber tribal region, where
security forces were conducting an operation against the
banned Lashkar-e-Islam group.
Pro-Taliban militants have blown up hundreds of girls’
schools in Pakistan’s northwest, especially the restive Swat
valley.
Educational institutes located on the outskirts of
Peshawar are under constant threat from the Taliban militants,
who claim girls’ and co-educational schools are "un-Islamic".
Educational institutes within city limits have also
received threatening letters from Taliban commanders.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 17:54