Under-Construction Girls School bombs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Peshawar: A construction government’s primary school for girls in Northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan was damaged in an IED blast by unknown terrorists, police said on Friday. The building was closed at the time of the explosion. The terrorists had put an explosive material inside the premises of Azan Javed Primary School under the Baka Sports Police jurisdiction in Banu district. The device was exploded with a powerful explosion, causing adequate structural damage to the building. Police said an FIR has been registered and forensic teams have been deployed to collect evidence from the blast site. Authorities have condemned the attack as an attempt to derail educational development in the region. According to a report by an Australian think tank, Lovi Institute, more than 1,100 girls schools have been destroyed in tribal areas between 2007 and 2017, teachers and young students have also targeted. Prior to an all-out military campaign launched by Pakistan’s security forces in 2014, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) launched hundreds of attacks on girls’ schools in tribal areas and settled districts of northwest province from their stronghold in Swat district. After the crack, TTP terrorists fled to Afghanistan and began to cross attacks from their new sanctuaries. Kabul’s Taliban acquisition hugs TTP, which is fighting to regain the control of its strongholds in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Since the acquisition of Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban banned the girls from going to school beyond the sixth grade and banned women from universities. The Pakistani Taliban, who is ideologically close to the Afghan Taliban, is trying to implement a uniform education and democratic agenda in the tribal areas of Pakistan by force. The youngest Nobel Prize Award winner, Malala Yousafzai, who is from SWAT district, was shot on his face, when she was 14 by TTP Gunmen in 2012, as she wanted to pursue her education.