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Taliban bomb girls' school near Peshawar
[Pak Daily Times]  The Pak Taliban bombed another government girls' high school in the Landi Arbab area of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar on Monday, police and local residents said. Local residents told Daily Times that gun-hung tough guys planted the explosives around the school during scheduled power outages, which had exploded at 2am. According to police officials, the blast damaged the walls and windows of the school but the institution's watchman remained safe. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly NWFP, aka Terrorism Central Education Minister Sardar Hussain Babak said that the number of schools destroyed due to the massive floods and terrorist attacks had risen to 2,000 and Rs 5 billion would be required for their reconstruction. Babak said that the floods had damaged around 900 schools in the province out of which 226 had been completely destroyed. The provincial education minister said that around 1,000 schools had been destroyed due to terrorist attacks. He said that more than 50 percent of the flood affectees who had taken refuge in government schools had returned to their homes. Posted by: Fred 2010-09-07 |
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