Pakistan Militants Targeting Schools in Northwest
January 20, 2010 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
IRIN – Attacks by militants on schools across northwestern Pakistan are continuing despite army operations in the area which began in May 2009 in Swat District.
Since late 2009, at least 10 schools have been targeted by Taliban militants in various parts of North West Frontier Province (NWFP), according to media reports.
Four children were killed in a September 2009 attack in Orakzai Agency allegedly in a bid to dissuade parents from sending children to school.
In the most recent attack on 18 January 2010 militants blew up a boys’ primary school in the village of Ashraf Kalay in Khyber Agency, also near the Afghan border.
