School teacher killed in Peshawar blast

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School teacher killed in Peshawar blast

Zahir Shah Sherazi Published October 1, 2014

PESHAWAR: A teacher was killed and two children injured on Wednesday when a hand-grenade attack took place on a school in the Shabqadar area of Peshawar.

Sources said the school had received letters a month earlier which threatened the administration to direct students to wear shalwar kameez instead of pants and shirts.

According to police sources, unidentified miscreants threw a hand-grenade on Askari Public School and College in Shabaqadar area.

The explosion resulted in the death of school teacher Madam Honey and injured two children.

Sources said that miscreants fled the scene after launching the attack and a search operation was under way.

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and Chief Minister Pervez Khattak have condemned the attack and sympathised with the families of those targeted.

Earlier, the PTI government had also decided in principle to remove ‘objectionable material’ from the textbooks of local primary schools to please the key partner of the ruling coalition, Jamaat-i-Islami.

JI had objected to pictures of girls without dupatta, X-mas cake, Cross emblem, good morning expression.

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Asif A. Shah

Oct 01, 2014 02:51pm

I am speechless!

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event horizon

Oct 01, 2014 02:55pm

What needs to be removed immediately from the curriculum is Good Morning.

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Usman

Oct 01, 2014 03:00pm

No words to condole. After affects of Waziristan operation are seriously harming KPK.

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Lyallpuri

Oct 01, 2014 03:05pm

I have no hope from anyone, including PTI's Nata Pakistan, in which such things will happen when PTI is weak to speak up and pleasing another coalition party by making, 'objectionable' changes in primary school syllabus. I was not expecting such an stone age action from PTI, now where should I look for Pakistan's future?

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ailly

Oct 01, 2014 03:06pm

why such MURDERERS / terrorists are being referred to as miscreants as if it was simple theft case ?.

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Hassan

Oct 01, 2014 03:08pm

yelling to change the material of text books of the and yet they wont speak against the killing of the innocent !

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hattori

Oct 01, 2014 03:20pm

Andrew carnegie later in his life said.."i have stopped believing what people speak but i watch what they actually do"...pti should publish their defination of naya pakistan out in public...what is naya that they want to bring...in this age of internet and globalisation where information is at the tip of your finger do they actually think that by removing few contents from textbooks will stop people from knowing what other people in world do or how they live their life...the only thing it will achieve is cultural shock this children will feel when they grows up and move out in world.

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Wamiq Ansari

Oct 01, 2014 03:22pm

KPK is Naya Pakistan, thank you Imran Khan for this gift. You are a spineless leader who is scared of Taliban. Can you please ask your dharna DJ to dedicate a special item number for the victims so people can dance harder.

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Kabir

Oct 01, 2014 03:24pm

Islam Zindabad

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joy

Oct 01, 2014 03:35pm

Rip :(

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faisal

Oct 01, 2014 03:52pm

Man this is sick to think you can intentionally go and kill kids for any reason.

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Moiz Omar

Oct 01, 2014 03:52pm

R.I.P.

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Amir Bangash

Oct 01, 2014 04:08pm

It is a very sad incident and May Allah bless the departed soul. I fail to under stand as to what the killers want to achieve by killing innocent women and children. The perpetrators need to be dealt with iron hands.

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Aryan

Oct 01, 2014 04:31pm

what IK - to be PM you are willing to go to extreme length. this is Naya Pakistan?? Thank you IK.

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Kabir

Oct 01, 2014 04:53pm

Just listen to justification from PTI tonight!!!

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nandu

Oct 01, 2014 05:30pm

After the mumbai attack when we gave all the proofs regarding the attack, you people said they are conspiracy theories by india. Now you have no one to blame...its you people and your government who are responsible for this...

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Irfan007

Oct 01, 2014 05:41pm

Despite the fact that I blame PTI for not doing enough in KPK, I will still support him. The only reason is that all other parties are corrupt from top to bottom. While this party has at least an honest and brave leader. Imagine IK as a prime minster speaking for pakistanis and their rights in USA for a moment. Now change him with the other available kachra options (NS and AZ) and ask yourself who is better. IK is by far the best of them.

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Tangerine

Oct 01, 2014 05:57pm

Who told these misguided goons that shalwar kameez is Islamic? According to their shariah it should be 'toub' that Saudis wear. Anyways, Shame on them for this ghastly act. They are killers and totally astray from the path of Islam. Condemning is not enough IK , do something about it.

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raj

Oct 01, 2014 06:08pm

@Dawn, killers of children and teachers are terrorists not miscreants ........

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Oct 01, 2014 07:41pm

@Irfan007 In addition to possessing honesty and bravery, EFFECTIVE leaders are also smart, competent, non-impulsive and good judge of men.

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Darkanu

Oct 01, 2014 07:41pm

Hard to express hurty feelings. It's seemed that the terrorists have expended their field of station targeting the innocent children and their teachers.

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Dr. Malik

Oct 01, 2014 08:25pm

so wearing shalwar kameez makes you smarter?

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singh

Oct 01, 2014 08:30pm

Boye par babur ka amawa kaha se hoye - Kabir (you have sowed a tree of babur, so how can you expect mangoes)

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Maha Mad

Oct 01, 2014 08:41pm

1. If women and men wear salwar kameez it's hard to differentiate from behind. 2. To address above issue women need to get behind the veil. Makes sense ?.

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ShahrukhKhan

Oct 01, 2014 09:51pm

Islam is best religion of the world. everyone should offer namaz 4 times daily at least. Educated people specially.

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Ganga Din

Oct 01, 2014 11:26pm

Are these three the only Police guys, KP has? Or is it one picture for all?

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MHM

Oct 01, 2014 11:28pm

Isn't naya Pakistan "liberal" ? "Earlier, the PTI government had also decided in principle to remove ‘objectionable material’ from the textbooks of local primary schools to please the key partner of the ruling coalition, Jamaat-i-Islami. JI had objected to pictures of girls without dupatta, X-mas cake, Cross emblem, good morning expression."

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Roaid

Oct 01, 2014 11:52pm

Islam I$ a beautiful religon & no ware in islamic law they can justify this. I call for improvement in both govt education system & also madrassa education system. One should not feal that these r 2 different things & they belong to different camps.

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Roaid

Oct 01, 2014 11:59pm

In UK all children attend school & after school they do hifz & alim courses till 10th class & after that they have choice to dedidicate themselves to one field. So no body feels I m different. Will that help in pakistan?

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dv1936

Oct 02, 2014 02:06am

Somebody has to act to prevent Pakistann from going back to stone age.

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