Militants blow up school in Pakistan
January 21st, 2012 - 7:25 pm ICT by IANSIslamabad, Jan 21 (IANS) Militants blew up a boys’ school in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border.
Three rooms and a veranda of the school in Bacha Mina area of Khyber tribal region were destroyed in the attack Friday night.
It was the only government school in the area built in the 1980s, the Xinhua news agency quoted the daily News as saying Saturday.
Ninety-five percent of the children at the school belong to Afghan refugee families.
Over 500 schools were destroyed by militants in the Pakistani tribal areas bordering Afghanistan since US-led troops began operation against them in 2001.
The literacy rate in northwest Pakistan (excluding Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province) is 22 percent, well below the nationwide rate of 56 percent.
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