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India-Pakistan
Girls school, shops blown up in Swabi
2011-08-31
[Dawn] Another government school for girls was blown up
Because that's what girls' schools are for.
and five shops were destroyed in two separate sabotage acts in the district here on Monday.
Those brave Lions of Islam won't be satisfied until they've turned the entire country to rubble, leaving only certain right-thinking mosques standing.
Police said that suspected beturbanned goons planted improvised bombs at a primary school for girls in Sherin Banda that went kaboom! with a big bang at 2:30am early in the morning. The classrooms, veranda and boundary wall of the school were damaged in the blast.

It was the fourth incident of its kind in the district during the holy month of Ramazan. Three other schools had been destroyed during the current month before the Monday`s incident.
The holy month must be celebrated properly...
The residents of they area said that they heard three kabooms one after another when they were making preparations or Sehr.

The second blast took place at a market in busy Link Road area and destroyed five shops.

Police said that suspected beturbanned goons planted improvised bomb at the backside of the market at busy Link Road. The device went off when people were busy in shopping in the area, they added.

However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
no casualty was reported in the incident as the bomb was planted at the backside of the market. Five shops were partially damaged in the blast.

Meanwhile,
...back at the bake sale, Umberto's Mom's cannoli were a big hit...
beturbanned goons targeted bunkers of volunteers of a tribal lashkar in Khwezai area while a suspected person was set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock in Michni area of Mohmand
... 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 Beautiful Downtown 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...
tribal region on Monday.

Sources said that beturbanned goons opened firing on the bunkers of volunteers of tribal lashkar in Khwezai area along the Afghan border with heavy and light weapons.

However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
the attackers missed the target, they said. The volunteers and security forces retaliated and launched a search operation in the area. Security forces recovered rocket launchers from the area while attackers managed to escape.

Forces also set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock a suspected person during a raid on a house in Michni area of tehsil Yakaghund. He set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock suspect was shifted to undisclosed location for interrogation.

In Landi Kotal tehsil of Khyber Agency, a powerful blast outside Agency Headquarter Hospital destroyed a private clinic and a medical laboratory besides smashing windowpanes of the hospital building on the night between Sunday and Monday.

Authorities said that the bomb was planted at the backside of a private clinic, adjacent to the main gate of the hospital, which went off with a big bang around midnight.

Imran Khan
... who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
, a medicine dealer, said that the blast was so powerful that it created a minor tremor inside the hospital and the medicine market outside the hospital.

The blast also caused partial damage to a medical store. Owner of the store Fazal Rehman Afridi said that a local beturbanned goon group Abdulah Ezaam Brigade claimed the credit for the blast as he found leaflets outside his shop on Monday morning in which the group had warned of more such attacks if "vulgarity" was not stopped at the hospital.

Local authorities said they started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified saboteurs and started investigations. A group of doctors have also met the local administration and demanded additional security at the hospital.
Posted by:Fred

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