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| Another school comes under grenade attack, pamphlet dropped |
| 2015-03-20 |
| [DAWN] Another private school in the city came under a grenade attack on Wednesday morning, triggering fear and panic among parents and the school administration. The grenade hurled by some motorcyclists at Beaconhouse School System, Primary III (playgroup to class V), in North Nazimabad's Block-B, went kaboom!at the boundary wall near its main gate. The attackers also dropped a pamphlet there, warning the authorities that if the killing of turbans in encounters, their execution and repatriation of Afghan refugees were not stopped, they would continue to target schools, non-Moslem communities and law enforcement agencies. The school administration immediately after the attack, which was carried out at 10.45am, closed the campus as parents became panicky and rushed to take their children back home. "The grenade attack appeared to be a move to create harassment," said Gulberg SP Faisal Noor. Some parents talking to the media complained that several schools in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... had been attacked since the Dec 16 terror attack on the Army Public School in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , but the authorities had yet to ensure proper security at schools. He said the motorcyclists could not be identified through CCTV camera footage, because they were covered by a car. He said contingents of police and Rangers rushed to the spot after receiving information of the grenade attack on the private school. It emerged during initial investigation that two private guards and a watchman on duty at the school did not challenge the attackers at all. "The security head of the school was detained following the incident for interrogation," the officer said. Quoting a bomb disposal squad official, the Gulberg SP said that it was a Russian-made (RG-7) hand grenade, weighing around 200 grams. In the same neighbourhood, the officer said, a suspected bully boy belonging to the banned Al-Qaeda was locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! for killing two members of the Ismaili community. Just four days after his arrest, a police mobile van of North Nazimabad DSP was targeted in a 'cracker attack'. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Fixed, Bov Flimbers. We all do it at some point. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-03-20 23:49 |
| #2 sorry for double post - forgot what tab i was on lol |
| Posted by: Bov Flimbers 2015-03-20 23:02 |
| #1 Can anyone here shed some light on something that perplexes me - now here's the Beaconsfield School, and there are probably many more "colonial" names - also hospitals (Lady Rose, Lady Canning etc)- how come these names persist in the pious heartland of the Dar al Islam. You would think they would have renamed all these colonialist expoiter establishments to some more islamically euphonious name like Al-Kaboomi Academy - is it possible that trust money from some long-expired philanthropists still flows? |
| Posted by: Bov Flimbers 2015-03-20 23:01 |