Blasts destroy Pakistan schools.1/19/2009 3:10:30 PM Pakistani fighters have blown up five schools in the northwestern Swat Swat (swät), district of the Malakand division, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. Saidu Sharif is the capital. The largely inaccessible region is reached by air and through mountain passes from the south and east. valley, just hours after government officials pledged to reopen schools closed due to the fear of attacks. "Four boys' schools and one girls' school were blown up by militants," Anwer Khan, a district police official in the town of Mingora, said on Monday. "No one was injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. in the bombings, but the school buildings were badly damaged." There were no pupils at the schools at the time of the attacks as they were closed for the winter holidays. The Swat valley has more than 600 state-run schools and about 400 private schools but many have been closed since anti-government fighters began a campaign of attacks against the local authority. 'Challenging the government' Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's information minister, said on Sunday that all girls' schools in Swat and the North West Frontier Province (NWFP NWFP North-West Frontier Province (northwest Pakistan) NWFP Northwest Forest Plan NWFP Non-Wood Forest Product ) would be reopened by March. "From March 1, all closed schools in Swat and NWFP will be reopened after the winter break," she said in the southern city of Karachi. "The non-state actors Non-state actors, in international relations, are actors on the international level which are not states. The admission of non-state actors into international relations theory is inherently a rebuke to the assumptions of realism and other "black box" theories of international are challenging the writ of ENTRY, WRIT OF. The name of a writ issued for the purpose of obtaining possession of land from one who has entered unlawfully, and continues in possession. This is a mere possessor action, and does not decide the right of property. 2. the government in the name of Sharia, but Islam does not allow to close down women's schools." Followers followers see dairy herd. of Maulana Fazlullah, a local leader who has reportedly has links to Pakistan's Taliban movement, have destroyed 173 schools, 105 of them for girls, since security forces launched a military operation in the region in 2007, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Sher Afzal, an education ministry official. Local pro-Taliban fighters see the schools as symbols of government authority and have accused the army of posting soldiers in them. Shaukat Yousafzai, a senior government official in Swat, said teachers were refusing to work. "I try to convince them but they're scared. They doubt the government's ability to protect them," he said. The president of a Swat teachers' association said his members would only go back to work if the government restored peace and shut down a radio station run by anti-government groups. "The ground reality is there's no safety," Ziauddin Yousafzai said. "If they're destroying schools during a curfew curfew [O.Fr.,=cover fire], originally a signal, such as the ringing of a bell, to damp the fire, extinguish all lights in the dwelling, and retire for the night. The custom originated as a precaution against fires and was common throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. , they can do anything. Even if the authorities announce schools are open, nobody will go and parents won't send their kids." [c] Aljazeera.net 2003 - 2008 Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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