Government school bombed in northwest Pakistan

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Unknown miscreants bombed a authorities precocious schoolhouse successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province successful northwest Pakistan aboriginal connected Friday (June 6, 2025), section constabulary said.

The miscreants blew up the authorities precocious schoolhouse utilizing explosives successful Akbari colony successful the jurisdiction of the Gul Imam constabulary presumption successful Tank district, constabulary sources said, adding, respective rooms of the schoolhouse collapsed owed to the explosion.

No radical has claimed work for the schoolhouse bombing arsenic yet.

However, splinter groups of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) progressive successful Tank territory are against girls' acquisition and usually people their schools.

According to information collected by section NGOs, implicit 450 schools successful the Province person been destroyed successful specified attacks implicit the past decade, forcing students to either halt attending schools oregon be classes adjacent to ruined buildings oregon the rubble.

Pakistan witnessed aggregate attacks connected girls’ schools until 2019, particularly successful the Swat Valley and elsewhere successful the northwest wherever the Pakistani Taliban agelong controlled the erstwhile tribal regions.

In 2012, the insurgents attacked Malala Yousafzai, a teenage pupil and advocator for the acquisition of girls, who aboriginal went connected to triumph the Nobel Peace Prize.

Published - June 06, 2025 03:27 p.m. IST