Many thanks to the Taliban. “60 per cent of Swat’s schools destroyed: UN,” from the Hindustan Times, June 8:
Sixty percent of the schools in Swat in Pakistan’s restive northwest, where the military is currently focussing [sic] its anti-Taliban operations, have been destroyed, the UN says, quoting government officials.
“In Swat, the district Department of Education (DoE) reported that 60 percent of schools (122 of 204) are completely destroyed,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), says in its third situation report on Swat and two other districts of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) where the military operations are also underway.[…]
The armed forces had gone into action April 26 after the Taliban reneged on a controversial peace deal with the NWFP government and instead moved south from their Swat headquarters and instead occupied Buner, which is just 100 km from Islamabad…