பெண்கள் உரிமைக்கழகத்தின் மீது தற்கொலை தாக்குதல் நடத்தமுயன்றவர் தானே பலி

பெண்கள் உரிமைக்கழகத்தின் மீது தற்கொலை தாக்குதல் நடத்தமுயன்ற இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதி தவறுதலாக வெடித்ததில் அவர் மட்டுமே பலியானார்

பாகிஸ்தானில் பெண்கள் உரிமை பெறக்கூடாது என்று இஸ்லாமிய தீவிரவாதிகள் பெண்கள் பள்ளிக்கூடங்களையும் பெண்களையும் தாக்கிவருகின்றனர்.

Militant killed in botched Pakistan bomb blast
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — A pro-Taliban militant was killed and two others wounded in a botched attempt to blow up the office of a women's rights group in troubled northwest Pakistan, police said.

The militants had been trying to plant a bomb at the Khawando Kor (Sisters' Home) in Karak town, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of provincial capital Peshawar late Sunday, local police officer Hajit Khan said.

The bomb exploded prematurely and one militant was killed, Khan said, adding that two injured accomplices had been arrested. The office was not damaged.

The trio had taken part in the "holy war" against the Soviets in neighbouring Afghanistan in the 1980s and were now supporting the hardline Taliban waging an insurgency there, he said.

The group, which has several offices across North West Frontier Province, has been promoting education and increased rights for women in the area.

Islamic militancy and support for style-Taliban law has been spilling over from the nearby tribal areas into the province.

At least two girls' schools were destroyed last week in bomb blasts in the tribal region where militants consider female education un-Islamic.

Violence has escalated in the deeply religious northwest, including the tribal region bordering Afghanistan, since an army raid at a pro-Taliban mosque in the capital Islamabad in July left scores of people dead.

Almost 400 people have been killed in the subsequent violence, mainly in suicide attacks, an AFP tally of the incidents shows.