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Taliban bomb 3 more schools in Pakistan

AFP, AP, Peshawar/ Parachinar
The Taliban blew up yesterday three schools in northwest Pakistan where troops are fighting against militants in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan while nine more militants were killed in military offensive in the same area, officials said.
A government official says Pakistan's army has killed at least nine suspected militants in a northwest tribal region near the Afghan border.
Mohammed Yasin says the military used helicopter gunships to destroy three militant hide-outs in the Orakzai area early Friday.
Many Pakistani Taliban fighters are believed to have fled to Orakzai since the army launched a major offensive against them in the South Waziristan tribal region in October.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has also hinted the army will pursue a full-scale offensive in Orakzai.
The UN says around 40,000 people have already fled the region.
Buildings in two boys' schools about 1.5 kilometres (one
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mile) apart were blown up in the Khyber tribal district which lies between Afghanistan and Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province.
"Militants blew up a government boys' high school and a middle school with explosives around 3.00 am (2100 GMT)," tribal administration official Rehan Gul Khattak told AFP.
There were no casualties because the properties were empty at the time, he said, blaming the Taliban and militants from the Lashkar-e-Islam (Army of Islam) led by local warlord Mangai Bagh for the attacks.
Another government boys high school was bombed in the Peshawar district of Sufaid Dheri, damaging its boundary wall and two rooms, senior police official Mohammad Karim told AFP
Islamist militants opposed to co-education and subscribers to sharia law have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in northwest Pakistan in recent years.
The Khyber tribal region is the main land bridge to neighbouring Afghanistan and the principle supply route for Nato troops fighting an eightyear Taliban insurgency across the border.
Pakistani troops launched an offensive in Khyber in September in a bid to flush out the Taliban and homegrown Lashkar-e-Islam.
The United States is increasing pressure on Pakistan to crack down more on militants hiding out in its lawless tribal belt, branded the most dangerous place on the planet and the chief sanctuary of al-Qaeda.