Monday, February 23, 2009

School blown up in Darra Adamkhel




KOHAT: Unknown persons late Monday night blew up Government High School for Boys, Sunnikhel, Darra Adamkhel — the ninth institute that was destroyed in the area.

Sources said five bombs were planted to the school walls that completely reduced the building into rubble.Girls’ education was stopped in the area as all the schools whether primary or high were blown up by the unknown militants in the gun-manufacturing town of Darra. Similarly, in the Tor Chappar area of Darra Adamkhel no boys or girls school at the moment was opened for the students.

Those who could afford had either sent their children to Kohat or Peshawar for studies while many coming from the poor families had stopped their education, sources said. The district coordination officer Siraj Ahmad Khan, when contacted said the government was trying its level best to reopen the schools in the FR Kohat area, including Darra Adamkhel.

Meanwhile, Taliban sources denied blowing of the schools in Darra Adamkhel and said enemies of Pakistan could be behind such incidents as they were not against the education.

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