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School blown up in Lakki Marwat
[Dawn] A boys government primary school was blown up in Abakhel village in Lakki Marwat district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province on Friday. The Lakki Police Station House Officer, Mashal Khan has confirmed that Government Boys Primary School Zairan Kally has been bombed by the myrmidons in early wee hours and have destroyed its three rooms and a Varanda He said that there is no loss of life but only the school building has been destroyed due to the kaboom carried out through home made IEDS. Meanwhile the Frontier Corps Media Cell spokesmen Major Fazl talking about the school bombings in  Mohmand Agency... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... on Thursday, where the bully boyz claimed to have destroyed four schools, said that the bully boyz have started a new technique of blowing up the already destroyed or damaged schools in the tribal region to make headlines in media. He said that the four schools which the bully boyz claimed to have destroyed in Mohmand Agency on Thursday were already abandoned because of earlier destruction and were non-functional. To a query he said, the only reason for bombing the already bombed schools is to get media attention but he said the media should take care about reporting such incidents and need to have to be verified from the administration. "All these non functional schools were in the far off areas, there buildings already destroyed, so its beyond understanding, why these schools were first bombed and than the claim made for their destruction, it just to terrorize the local population and get media attention," he replied when asked why the security forces have failed to guard these schools. Posted by: Fred 2013-03-02 |
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