Posted on 02/20/2016 2:31:29 PM PST by BenLurkin
There were no casualties, but the bomb destroyed three out of five classrooms of the government girls' primary school in Tiarza village of tribal South Waziristan, a local security official told AFP.
Azam Tariq, a spokesman for the "Sajna" arm of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the school had been targeted because it was run by the military and the group was opposed to female education.
Tariq told AFP that militants captured 18 people including school security guards and labourers before planting the explosive, but later released them.
Since 2002, when the army moved into northwestern tribal areas to fight the Taliban, militants have blown up hundreds of schools.
Pakistan's army stepped up its offensive in the region after the Taliban's massacre of 153 people, mostly school children, in Peshawar in December 2014, and killed or pushed hundreds of militants to Afghanistan.
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Very educational of them.
Pakistan, land of the pure.
Hahahaha, makes me laugh.
Religion of Peace ping
This is the origin of “Pakistan”....
It was coined in 1933 as ‘Pakstan’ by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who published it in his pamphlet Now or Never,[26] using it as an acronym (”thirty million Muslim brethren who live in PAKSTAN”) referring to the names of the five northern regions of the British Raj: Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan”.[27][28][29] The letter i was incorporated to ease pronunciation and form the linguistically correct and meaningful name.[30]
Biden Says that 'The Taliban, Per Se, Is Not Our Enemy'
Obama and Hillary agreed with him.
War on women: the Taliban, Hitlery, Biden, and Obama.
Remember, before your become too critical and expressive of your “white privilege”...all cultures are equal.
When America beat the Taliban, women
in Afghanistan were allowed to take off their burqa
for ONE (1) day until the Democrats and UN and EU
demanded that they take their place as slaves and chattel.
America should have given the women in Afghanistan
ALL the power, as America should to ANY Islamic Enemy.
Perhaps the loons at Madison or Berkeley can send sociologists to study the situation.
These are moderate Taliban.
They did it while the girls weren’t in school.
Well, a Pakistani told me what I wrote. His father was the FIRST native Pakistani VICAR, Church of England. There were less than 1% Christian there some years ago. I’m sure it’s down to ZERO by now.
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