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Girls' wing of new government school blown up in South Waziristan
[DAWN] Militants blew up part of a newly constructed government school in the South  Wazoo region late Friday night, a front man for a wing of the Pak Taliban said on Saturday, the latest in a string of attacks on educational institutions.A splinter group of the Pak Taliban (TTP), known as the Sajna group grabbed credit for the attack "We have blown up the school because it was a government installation," said Azam Tariq, front man for Sajna, warning the group would continue to attack government targets. No one was hurt in the blast, but 18 labourers working on the site were kidnapped and released shortly after. Officials in South Waziristan said the girls' wing of the primary school in the tehsil Tiarza area was damaged in Friday's blast, as well as some heavy machinery being used for ongoing construction at the site. In a separate incident in Mohmand tribal area to the north, Pak security officials killed five bully boyz during a clash near  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... 's administrative headquarters on Saturday. The bully boyz were planning an attack in the area, a security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... . Posted by: Fred 2016-02-21 |
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