<p>The privately owned co-educational school located near Mathra village on the outskirts of the capital of the North West Frontier Province was blown up at 3.30 am, the police said. Two rooms and a verandah of the school building collapsed after the blast.<br /><br />The school is situated on Warsak road, which connects Peshawar to Mohmand Agency. There are several private schools and colleges in the area.<br /><br />Militants on December 14 had blown up a state-run girls school in Pakistan's restive Khyber tribal region, where security forces were conducting an operation against the banned Lashkar-e-Islam group.<br /><br />Pro-Taliban militants have blown up hundreds of girls’ schools in Pakistan’s northwest, especially the restive Swat valley.<br /><br />Educational institutes located on the outskirts of Peshawar are under constant threat from the Taliban militants, who claim girls’ and co-educational schools are "un-Islamic".<br />Educational institutes within city limits have also received threatening letters from Taliban commanders.<br /><br /></p>
<p>The privately owned co-educational school located near Mathra village on the outskirts of the capital of the North West Frontier Province was blown up at 3.30 am, the police said. Two rooms and a verandah of the school building collapsed after the blast.<br /><br />The school is situated on Warsak road, which connects Peshawar to Mohmand Agency. There are several private schools and colleges in the area.<br /><br />Militants on December 14 had blown up a state-run girls school in Pakistan's restive Khyber tribal region, where security forces were conducting an operation against the banned Lashkar-e-Islam group.<br /><br />Pro-Taliban militants have blown up hundreds of girls’ schools in Pakistan’s northwest, especially the restive Swat valley.<br /><br />Educational institutes located on the outskirts of Peshawar are under constant threat from the Taliban militants, who claim girls’ and co-educational schools are "un-Islamic".<br />Educational institutes within city limits have also received threatening letters from Taliban commanders.<br /><br /></p>