PESHAWAR: An under-construction authorities main faculty for women in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was broken in an IED blast by unknown militants, police stated on Friday. No casualties had been reported because the constructing was unoccupied on the time of the explosion. Militants had planted an explosive materials contained in the premises of the Azaan Javed Main College in Baka Khel police jurisdiction of Bannu district. The machine was detonated with a robust blast, inflicting substantial structural injury to the constructing. An FIR has been registered and forensic groups have been deployed to gather proof from the blast website, police stated. Authorities have condemned the assault as an try and derail academic improvement within the area. In keeping with a report by the Lowy Institute, an Australian suppose tank, greater than 1,100 ladies’ colleges have been destroyed within the tribal areas between 2007 to 2017, with lecturers and younger college students additionally focused. Earlier than an all-out navy operation launched by Pakistan’s safety forces in 2014, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) carried out a whole bunch of assaults on ladies’ colleges within the tribal areas and settled districts of the northwestern province from its stronghold in Swat district. After the crackdown, TTP militants fled to Afghanistan and started to orchestrate cross border assaults from their new sanctuaries. The Taliban takeover of Kabul has emboldened the TTP, which is preventing to regain management of its strongholds within the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Because the takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban has banned ladies from attending faculty past the sixth grade and banned ladies from universities. Pakistani Taliban, who’re ideologically nearer to Afghan Taliban, are attempting to implement an identical anti-education and theocratic agenda in Pakistan’s tribal areas by pressure. The youngest Nobel Prize laureate, Malala Yousafzai, who’s from Swat district, was shot within the face when she was 14 by TTP gunmen in 2012 as she needed to pursue her schooling.
