Pakistan: 4 girls’ schools set on fire by miscreants in last 7 days

Girls' schools are being continuously targeted in Pakistan. On Thursday (May 29), some armed men attacked a girls' middle school in Surab district and set it on fire. This is the fourth such incident in a week.

Girls’ schools are being continuously targeted in Pakistan. On Thursday (May 29), some armed men attacked a girls’ middle school in Surab district and set it on fire. This is the fourth such incident in a week.

According to Pakistani newspaper Dawn, on Monday night, unknown people set fire to the Golden Arrow Girls Middle School in Waziristan. Then on Tuesday, terrorists set a girls’ school on fire in North Waziristan.

After this, late on Wednesday night, some unknown people set fire to the staff room of a school in Killi Dhamb Tehsil. Police reached the spot and extinguished the fire.

The incidents of attacks on girls’ schools are increasing continuously in Pakistan. For the last few months, the incidents of attacks on girls’ schools have increased continuously in Kech and Panjgur districts of Balochistan. Police have arrested a teacher who taught there in the case of setting fire to the Waziristan school.

However, by then the attackers had fled. According to the local police, there was no night guard posted in that school. The police have now registered a case against these attackers under the terrorism law and have started investigating the matter.

According to the police, the accused has been identified as Faridullah. The FIR lodged at the Razmak police station states that five masked armed men entered the school premises by jumping over the wall and forcibly took the keys and set the school on fire.

This school was built by the Pakistani Army in 2020 and more than 500 girls studied here. Earlier in March also, the school was attacked, in which the solar lights installed in the school were damaged.

After the Pakistani Prime Minister got the school repaired, another school was blown up with a bomb

On May 9, terrorists set fire to a private girls’ school in Shawa area of ​​​​South Waziristan district. However, after this, the school was reopened after repairs on the orders of Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif.

Then, just 8 days later, another school in the same area was bombed by terrorists. Then the Pakhtunkhwa government had said that immediate action would be taken.