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Girls school blown up in Nowshera

PESHAWAR: Two bombs went off in a government-run primary school for girls in the Barakhel area of Mera Risalpur, District Nowshera, in the early hours of Tuesday, a police official said.

An official of the Risalpur police station stated that three classrooms and the main gate, along with the boundary wall of the school, were completely destroyed as a result of the explosion.

Station House Officer (SHO) Muhammad Ishaq, said, “Unidentified persons barged into the school and planted two bombs, each weighing three kilograms, on the outer walls of the classrooms and fled. The explosions occurred when the watchman left his post and went to offer his morning prayers.”

He added that an FIR has not been registered so far.

The Executive District Officer Nowshera, Hasanat Gul said “The number of schools destroyed by anti-literacy militants in the district have reached 16, of which seven were schools for girls and nine were for boys. These people [extremists] are not destroying the schools they are destroying the future of this nation,” he stated.

Hasanat Gul added that it is indeed the duty of the watchman to guard the school, but it is not possible for one man alone to stop extremists from the destruction of educational institutes.

Girls school blown up in Nowshera – The Express Tribune
 
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Two bullet-riddled bodies found in Balochistan

QUETTA: Two bullet-riddled bodies were found dumped in the Mastung District and the provincial capital Quetta on Wednesday.

One body was recovered in the Zehri Qazt area of Dahst district of Mastung.

According to Balochistan Levies official Abdul Kareem, some passers-by spotted the body and informed the nearby levies station.

Balochistan Levies rushed to the spot and shifted the body to civil hospital, Quetta. “The body had bullet wounds in the head,” an official said, adding that the identity of the deceased could not be ascertained.

Meanwhile, another bullet-riddled body was found in the Sardar Karez area in the jurisdiction of Shalkot Police Station in Quetta.

According to police, officials have shifted the body to the civil hospital. The identity of this body could also not be ascertained.

Balochistan Levies and police personnel registered the cases separately against unknown persons and are investigating the matter. The bodies were kept in the morgue of the Provincial Sandeman Hospital for identification.

Two bullet-riddled bodies found in Balochistan – The Express Tribune
 
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Targeted: Car destroyed, JUI-S leader escapes unhurt in bomb attack

NOWSHERA: The car of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) Maulana Syed Mohammad Yousaf Shah was blown up in a bomb attack near Khushal Khan Khattak Library in Akora Khattak district Nowshera, a police official said.

The car blew up after Maulana Yousaf’s driver parked the car at a service station in Akora Khattak. There were no casualties or injuries.

“The 1kg magnet bomb was planted in the car to target Maulana Yousaf,” said Station House Officer Akora Khattak police station while talking to The Express Tribune.

“Although the car was completely destroyed in the explosion, he [Maulana Yousaf] remained safe,” he said.

“Anti Islamic elements want to stop us from our mission but we will persevere,” said Maulana Yousaf.

Maulana Yousaf, a resident of District Lakki Marwat, is a teacher at Darul Uloom Haqqania and close friend of the deceased Mulana Naseeb Khan Wazir who was found dead on Ring Road in Nowshera a day after he was kidnapped.

Earlier, another religious scholar and leader of JUI-F Mulana Mohsin Shah was asleep in his seminary at Jamia Haleemia in district Lakki Marwat when unidentified men killed him.


Targeted: Car destroyed, JUI-S leader escapes unhurt in bomb attack – The Express Tribune
 
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One killed, four injured in Kohat blast

KOHAT: One person was killed and four injured when a remote-controlled bomb went off near the Ghulam Banda bridge in Kohat on Thursday, reported Express News.

According to sources, the bomb was tied to a motorcycle and went off when a Suzuki was passing by, injuring five people onboard. The injured were shifted to the district hospital where one of them passed away.

The Bomb Disposal Squad confirmed that a remote-controlled bomb was planted on a motorcycle.

One killed, four injured in Kohat blast – The Express Tribune
 
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Bus attack: 7 killed, 3 injured in Shaheed Benazirabad

SHAHEED BENAZIRABAD: At least seven people were killed and three were injured as unknown assailants opened fire inside a bus on Friday. The bus was on its way from Karachi to Swabi in Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa.

Around 50 passengers were on board when the bus came under attack on National Highway at Rinn Shakh, near Qazi Ahmed Taluka of Shaheed Benazirabad district.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Sardar Khan Chandio said that the Sindhu Desh Liberation Army had claimed responsibility for the attack.

One body was shifted to Peoples Medical College Hospital in Shaheed Benazirabad district, while the remaining six were moved to Taluka Hospital, Qazi Ahmed.

The second driver of the bus, Lal Khan, told the media that a passenger had gotten on the bus from Sakrand. He had asked the driver to pull over at Rinn Shakh where his brother was waiting to get on the bus.

“When the bus stopped, four armed men got on the bus and opened fire and later fled on two motorbikes,” Khan said.

Five persons died on the spot, while two passed away at the hospital.

The deceased were identified as Haji Abdul Ghaffar Pathan (driver), Shahzad Hassan and Muhammad Makrab from Attock, Sameeullah Khan from Mianwali, Gulreb Khan from Swabi, Abdul Majeed and Arsalan Majeed from Taxila.

One deceased could not be identified, while Qair, Tahir Ali and Ameer Ali were among the injured.

According to eyewitnesses, the attackers raised slogans that they had taken revenge for an attack on the Awami Tehreek rally in Karachi.

Other eyewitnesses quoted that the assailants had said that the attack was revenge for the murder of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) leader Muzaffar Bhutto, whose body was found from Hyderabad after 15 months of his disappearance.

However, the bus cleaner, Nadeem Khan, said the attackers did not discriminate on if the victims were Sindhis or non-Sindhis. “They didn’t ask about anyone’s ethnicity. They climbed up and opened fire and fled while raising slogans.”

Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Police Hyderabad Sanaullah Abbassi, who reached the site of the attack, told the media that at least 25 bullet shells were seen around the bus.

“The attackers fired inside and from outside the bus.”

The DIG said the police could not say whether automatic weapons were used in the incident as the shells were still being collected.

The passengers who escaped the attack were shifted to a safe place, which the police authorities declined to reveal.

Bus attack: 7 killed, 3 injured in Shaheed Benazirabad – The Express Tribune
 
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Rocket attacks kill two injure 20 in Quetta | DAWN.COM

QUETTA: Two people were killed and at least 20 others injured on Saturday amid rocket attacks in different parts of the violence-hit provincial capital of Balochistan, DawnNews reported.

According to police, at least two rockets were fired from Quetta’s adjoining areas. The first rocket landed at a busy market killing a 17-year-old boy and wounded 17 others, police said. One of the injured died later in hospital.

“A boy was killed on the spot and one of the wounded, a man, died at hospital,” senior police official Mohammad Zubair told AFP.

Meanwhile the second rocket was dropped on a house in Basti Panchayat near Kasi Road. Three houses were destroyed as a result and at least 3 people sustained injuries as well.

Injured were taken to a nearby hospital.

Zubair said nobody had immediately claimed responsibility for firing the rockets but in the past separatists have carried out similar attacks.

Police and Frontier Constabulary (FC) officials cordoned off the sites and initiated an inquiry into the incidents.

Moreover, a student was killed while five people including Principal of Kharan Public School received bullet shots when armed men opened fire at them earlier on Saturday, police said.

“Unidentified gunmen riding bikes targeted the vehicle of local private school principal Muzafar Jamali in Kharan district as a result one student Obaidullah sitting inside the vehicle died on the spot while five people including the principal sustained injuries and were shifted to a hospital.

The assailants managed to escape.

Due to their critical situation, doctors referred the injured to hospitals in Quetta.

Police registered a case and started investigation.
 
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Quetta blast kills three, injures six: police | DAWN.COM

QUETTA: A remote-controlled bomb targeting a police van killed three passers-by and wounded six other people in Pakistan’s troubled southwest on Sunday, police said.

The explosive device was planted underneath a donkey cart on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of the oil-and-gas-rich Balochistan province, which borders Iran and Afghanistan.

“The bomb targeting a police van exploded seconds after it passed by the cart, killing three passers-by and wounding six others including a policeman,”local police official Sikandar Tareen told AFP.

Another local police official, Saleem Shawani, confirmed the incident and casualties. There was no claim of responsibility, but Balochistan suffers from militancy, sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims and a separatist insurgency.

Gunmen riding a motorcycle shot dead the chief warden of the district prison on May 19.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility and said “the slain warden was a cruel person and used to subject our imprisoned leaders and workers to torture”.

Hundreds of civilians have been killed since Baloch rebels rose up in 2004 against the federal Pakistani government, demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the resources in the region.
 
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Its so weird.. An attack by American drones that kills a few terrorists gets so much angry responses from Pakistani members.. On the other hand, a terrorist strike that kills civilians and policemen has zero takers ... Looks like Pakistani members here do not mind terror strikes as long as they are indigenous...
 
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Its so weird.. An attack by American drones that kills a few terrorists gets so much angry responses from Pakistani members.. On the other hand, a terrorist strike that kills civilians and policemen has zero takers ... Looks like Pakistani members here do not mind terror strikes as long as they are indigenous...
have you seen the indian insurgency thread? You'll barely get any response there from indians but whenever an attack happens in Pakistan it's filled with Indians. Looks like indians only have "sympathies" and comments for Pakistan related attacks
 
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Who comments on Indian insurgency threads then????
Is it full of Pakistanis???
have you seen the indian insurgency thread? You'll barely get any response there from indians but whenever an attack happens in Pakistan it's filled with Indians. Looks like indians only have "sympathies" and comments for Pakistan related attacks
 
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have you seen the indian insurgency thread? You'll barely get any response there from indians but whenever an attack happens in Pakistan it's filled with Indians. Looks like indians only have "sympathies" and comments for Pakistan related attacks

Its a Pakistani defence forum after all.. As a lot of your brethren keep reminding us.. So obviously Pakistani news gets more mileage.. But that still does not answer my observation
 
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Its a Pakistani defence forum after all.. As a lot of your brethren keep reminding us.. So obviously Pakistani news gets more mileage.. But that still does not answer my observation
Pakistanis will comment in attacks that happens whereas the indian insurgency has barely any comments from indians
 
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