A group of militants used kerosene to set fire to a girls’ school in a former Taliban stronghold in Pakistan, destroying furniture, computers and books, police said on Wednesday, the latest in a growing number of such attacks.
No one was injured in the overnight attack in North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where two girls’ schools were bombed earlier this month, local police official Rehamat Ullah said.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities believe it was the work of Islamic extremists who attacked a girls’ school several years ago, arguing that women should not be allowed to receive an education.
North Waziristan is a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban (also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan), a separate group but a close ally of the Afghan Taliban, which seized power in neighboring Afghanistan in 2021. The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan has emboldened the Pakistani Taliban.
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