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| Afghanistan |
| Gunmen Attack Kunar Schools |
| 2016-05-20 |
| Unknown gunmen torched and blew up buildings at three schools in Kunar province, local officials said Thursday. According to them, the incident occurred during the night on Wednesday in the Dara-i-Pech district of Kunar province. The Kunar education director has confirmed the incident and said investigations are underway. Officials said the gunmen torched a girl's school and two boy's schools. "They [unknown gunmen] targeted three schools in Dare-i-Pech. and they blew up one school and two classrooms of the school were destroyed and two other classrooms damaged and a primary school was completely destroyed after being torched and one other classroom affected," said Sayed Jamaluddin Hussaini Kunar, an education director. The incident has meanwhile angered tribal elders and religious scholars. The elders and scholars said that the enemies of Afghanistan want to keep people in the dark by using Islam. "People do not want their school doors closed and their children to remain illiterate. Those who did this we want them to be questioned," said Haqyar a religious scholar. Meanwhile Education Minister Asadullah Hanif Balkhi said during his recent visit to Nangarhar province that soon wide reforms will be brought to the education sector in the eastern zone. "Our delegation has arrived and they will visit cities, districts and village schools one by one and will bring us the figures then it will be clear how many are ghost schools and teachers and after that we will solve the problem," said Balkhi. Video report at the link |
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