8 school lecturers shot lifeless in targeted assaults in Pakistan’s restive northwest

By Press Trust of India: Eight school lecturers had been killed on Thursday in two separate incidents of targeted capturing in Pakistan’s restive northwest tribal district, bordering Afghanistan, police talked about.

In the first incident, some unknown gunmen stormed the workers room of Teri Mengal High School throughout the Upper Kurram tribal district throughout the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and shot lifeless seven lecturers on examination obligation, in accordance with police.

The attackers fled after the assault. In a separate incident, a college teacher was killed when his vehicle was ambushed by unknown gunmen on Shalozan Road throughout the Parachinar headquarters of the similar district.

No group or explicit individual claimed accountability for the assaults.

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However, the incidents come merely two days after Pakistani security forces killed Abdul Jabar Shah, a notorious Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander and two others and made quite a few key arrests throughout the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

After the brutal firing incident, an emergency has been declared in all the effectively being facilities of the district.

The Kohat Board examination for ninth and tenth grades has moreover been postponed after the killings.

The police have launched an infinite hunt to arrest the killers.

President Arif Alvi condemned the incident and expressed hope that the culprits would rapidly be arrested and punished in accordance with regulation.

Separately, at least six troopers had been killed, and three terrorists eradicated all through a battle that occurred between security forces and the terrorists in northwest Pakistan on Thursday.

The confrontation between the navy and the terrorists occurred throughout the Dirdoni house of the North Waziristan tribal district, the navy’s media wing ISPR talked about.

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Two terrorists had been moreover injured throughout the retaliatory hearth.

The operation in opposition to terrorists would proceed till the whole elimination of the terrorists, the ISPR talked about.

The outlawed TTP has elevated the assaults in present months and has apparently grow to be stronger as a result of the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban.

The militant group, organize as an umbrella group of quite a few militant outfits in 2007, known as off a ceasefire with the federal authorities and ordered its militants to stage terrorist assaults country-wide.