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Pak girls school blown up

7 militants killed in fighting

AFP, AP, Peshawar/ Islamabad
Islamist militants blew up a girls school in Pakistan's lawless Khyber tribal district yesterday, destroying the building and wounding four people in neighbouring homes, officials said.
l\vo explosions ripped through the 18-room government high school for girls at Kari Gar village and a boy who watched the premises is missing, possibly kidnapped by the militants, local administration officials said.
"The militants have blown up the school with two blasts and all rooms were demolished," said administration official
ShafeerUllah.
"Four people in neighbouring houses were also wounded and their homes slightly damaged. We're still trying to find out what happened to the office boy," Ullah told AFP.
Another of Khyber's administrators, Farooq Khan, confirmed the incident.
Islamist militants, who have carved out a strong presence in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt on the Afghan border, have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in the northwest of the country in recent years.
Nearly 200 schools were destroyed in the Swat valley alone during a two-year
Taliban uprising to enforce Sharia law in a district once favoured by Western tourists for its ski slopes and bracing mountain air.
Security forces battling pockets of resistance in a mountainous Taliban stronghold killed at least seven militants Sunday and injured several more, officials said, as militants kidnapped and killed a prominent pro-government activist in another tribal area where the government claims to have near-total control.
Following up a similar offensive in Swat this summer, Pakistan has been fighting against homegrown militants in Khyber and pressing a major assault designed to crush Taliban sanctuaries in South Waziristan.
Authorities last month shut schools across Pakistan following a suicide attack on a university campus in Islamabad, although most have since reopened.
The Sunday fighting took place in the village of Kaniguram, which Pakistan attacked during its two-week-old offensive in South Waziristan, one of the semi-autonomous tribal regions where the Taliban has grown in power in recent years.
The officials, from Pakistan's intelligence branches and the paramilitary Frontier Corps, spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not -authorised to speak withthe media.
While Pakistan aided in the rise of the Afghan Taliban in the 1990s, it has become increasingly destabilised in recent years by the growth of its own militant Taliban network.
The Taliban including fighters from Afghanistan, Pakistan and places like Uzbekistan, Chechnya and the Arab world have long taken refuge in the undeveloped, desperately rugged and mountainous tribal regions along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, where they can often operate openly. Osama bin Laden and many of his top al-Qaeda aides are also thought to be in hiding along the border.
Pakistan launched its offensive in mid-October in order to drive out the militants, though it remains unclear what Islamabad plans to do once it has taken military control of the region. The government has never had -^nuch^®uthority ifP the triba! areas, which used to fall under the control of tribal elders but which has become increasingly lawless as the militants killed traditional leaders during their own rise to power.