Three teachers killed in northwest Pakistan

[FalconsForPeace]

In the northwestern Hangu district of Pakistan on Monday, gunmen opened fire on three primary school teachers that were on their way home after school, killing them on the spot, Hangu police said.

ISLAMABAD - In the northwestern Hangu district of Pakistan on Monday, gunmen opened fire on three primary school teachers that were on their way home after school, killing them on the spot, Hangu police said.

“They (deceased) were on their way home after school when two motor bikers opened fire on them. All three died on the spot,” Iftikhar Ahmed Khan, the Hangu police chief told reporters.

The incident took place in the suburban Kach Bunda area located 12 kilometers west of Hangu city. The motive behind the cold-blooded murder has yet to be ascertained. The main Hangu road near where the incident took place was blocked by residents for hours to protest against the incident.

Angry protestors including family members of the deceased pelted stones at vehicular traffic, and burned old tyres on the road.

Two of the deceased were Shiite, while one was Sunni, the police said. Hangu, located 250 kilometers south of Peshawar, the capital of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province, which borders war-plagued Afghanistan, has been notorious for sectarian clashes with Hangu being one of the few districts in the province which has a sizable population of Shiites.

However, family members did not confirm that there was any sectarian involvement in the killings.

Pakistan is a Sunni majority country with 85 per cent Sunni population, whereas Shiites make up the 10 per cent total of 180 million people.

Police launched a search operation in the nearby Afghan refugee camp and detained 25 people on suspicion of involvement in the incident, the police said.
Three teachers killed in northwest Pakistan

 

[Parul]

Rest in peace!

 

[A.Rafay]

RIP

 

[Sliver]

if you instill fear in these people who want to do good for you, how many will come forward to become more teachers? saddening state of affairs!

 

[Gautam]

rest in peace

 

[EyanKhan]

RIP

RIP

 

[Khan_patriot]

May Allah have mercy upon them and give strength to their families....

 

[Humble Pakistani]

If you kill female teachers the girls don't get educated. What "sharia" are these illiterate killers are talking about? Can someone sane explain please.

 

[Informant]

Jahil qaum hai yeh, ghatiya infact. Their mentality is filthy and narrow beyond grasp beyond hope.

 

[pkuser2k12]

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon​

 

[CENTCOM]

Teachers are assets of a nation. They groom the future generations to take the nation forward. The terrorists know fully well that by killing helpless teachers they can hurt the nation most. We strongly condemn the killings of defenseless teachers, and send our heartfelt condolences to the families and the students of the three teachers gunned down. These are trying times; the coward enemy has always tried to be deceitful. We all have to be vigilant against the enemy, whose only purpose is to create death and mayhem. The days of violence is numbered so we need to stand united against the enemy who always hits from blindside.


Abdul Quddus
DET- United States Central Command
www.centcom.mil/ur

 

[waz]

I hate these terrorists with such a passion. Why oh why are these filth even being spoken to. It's high time to slaughter them all.

 

[janon]

if you instill fear in these people who want to do good for you, how many will come forward to become more teachers? saddening state of affairs!

That's precisely the intent, from the attackers' POV. Keep another generation illiterate and gullible, so that their own primitive ideology and way of life can be imposed upon them. Talibanism or maoism is unlikely to find any takers in Sweden or Australia, but will find takers in the N-W of Pakistan or the remote jungles of India. Anybody can understand why that is.

From the talibani terrorists' POV, it makes perfect sense - let the children get an education, and they lose potential recruits and sympathizers. Prevent the spread of literacy and knowledge and ''evil western science and technology'', and they will continue to get support for their cause, and lots of gullible people who idealize and lionize bearded gunmen rather than scholars and educators. What better way to achieve mass ignorance, than to kill and intimidate teachers?

Thank you for your service to humankind, the teachers who perished today. I know you can't read this, since you are rotting in a grave, slain by barbarians, but hopefully other men and women will venture into those places and continue the all important work of educating the next generation. May your blood spilt today fuel the lamps of tomorrow.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

If you kill female teachers the girls don't get educated. What "sharia" are these illiterate killers are talking about? Can someone sane explain please.

its the shariah of the schools of Molana Sami ul Hq he says he got "positive" response from Taliban over the demands of the government.

this is what is called positive, continue to kill and bomb Pakistani civilians.

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

Rest in Peace