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India-Pakistan
Girls school blown up in Mardan
2011-08-26
[Dawn] Militants blew up a government school in Mardan district and attacked several checkposts in 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...
Agency on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday.

Sabir Gul, the SHO of Jabbar cop shoppe in Mardan, told Dawn that unidentified faceless myrmidons had planted explosives in a room of Government Girls Higher Secondary School Sawldher that went off at 1:25am with a big bang.

"I along with other police officials was on routine patrolling of the area when the kaboom occurred," he said, adding that they rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area.

He said that the blast completely destroyed two rooms and a veranda while boundary wall and two other rooms of the school building were partially damaged.

However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
the kaboom caused no loss of human life as the school was empty at the time of the blast. "We launched a search operation soon after the kaboom in the surrounding areas and tossed in the slammer several suspected persons," Mr Gul said.

According to officials of Bomb Disposal Unit, 14 to 15 kilograms of explosives were used in the kaboom.

It is pertinent to mention here that a week ago the main gate and wall of a government middle school for girls in Gujrat Bashkhali area were partially damaged in a blast.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde...
faceless myrmidons attacked several checkposts in Safi tehsil of Mohmand Agency on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday.

According to sources, faceless myrmidons used light weapons to attack the checkposts in Karir, Dwajangi, Qayumabad and Hashim Kor areas of Safi tehsil.

Security forces retaliated and targeted suspected positions in the area along the border. No report of casualty was received from the area.

In another incident, a primitive was injured when a stray shell hit a house in the Safi tehsil during the night. The injured, identified as Jamil, was shifted to Peshawar at death's door.
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