 Militants blew up Collegiate Model School in Palosai, near Peshawar University, on December 25. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Amir Haider Hoti says Pakistani militants want to keep future generations illiterate. [Amir Mohammad Khan] |
PESHAWAR – Education is under attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) as the Taliban continue to destroy school buildings and have started targeting school vans and buses.
The new trend is disturbing because when buildings were first targeted, the bombings occurred at night to limit injuries.
Terrorists are trying to keep the future generation illiterate, KP Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti said January 10 at the dedication of the Palosa Campus of Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan.
“We are trying to put pens in the hands of students while terrorists are trying to equip them with guns to carry forward their agenda and push the region toward illiteracy,” he said.
The militants are enemies of Pakistan, Islam and peace, Hoti said, as they are trying to push the children toward darkness.
“We are targeting schools because they are part of an infidel system of education,” said Sajjad Mohmand, Tehreek-e- Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Mohmand Agency spokesman. He claimed another school had been destroyed in Bahai Dag, Mohmand agency the night of January 13-14.
School van bombings have been more frequent recently. A remote-controlled bomb attack on a school van in the Shagai Hinkyan area of Peshawar January 12 killed two female teachers and injured eight — including two young children — and terrified parents.
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