News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
S Government has shut all schools and universities for at least a week after the Taliban warned that they would treat the entire country as a war zone. In Islamabad yesterday, gunmen riding a motorbike ambushed a military jeep in Pakistan's capital,...
News Source: The independent
| about 1 month ago
Pakistan shut all educational institutions yesterday after two suicide bombings at a university, showing the power of militants to disrupt everyday life as they fight back against a major army offensive in the north-west. On Tuesday bombers struck...
News Source: United Press International
| about 1 month ago
Officials closed all educational facilities in Pakistan Wednesday, fearing an attack on an Islamic university a day earlier would be followed by more terrorism. Dawn reported all government and private schools, colleges and universities will be...
News Source: The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
| about 1 month ago
As ground troops pressed their offensive in a remote tribal region, police in cities went on heightened alert against yet more attacks from al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists in which 185 people have died so far this month. Pakistan shut schools and...