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Education suffers due to militancy in Malakand
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May 25, 2012
Although the so -called war on terrorism is near to its end but the Pakistani nation has suffered enough in this war as the then rulers of the country had adopted the others war without the wish of the nation.

Before adoption of this war on terrorism no one was aware of the consequences of this war, which includes, suicide bombing in Mosques and bazaars and Drone attacks.

Decline in country economy, new waves of militancy, military operation to curb this nuisance and mass migration following this military operation made the nation mentally retarded.

Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa’s areas , including Malakand and FATA have witnessed worst disasters of the war in all fields of the life particularly in education sector.

Despite the lapse of three years reconstruction work of different educational institutions, including 500 in Malakand and around 450 in tribal areas have not been started so far. Even the interference of international organizations the government has yet to start the reconstruction process in the areas.

The already abysmal sector of education has not remained immune to the precarious security situation in Pakistan either. Education falls in the cross chairs of two distinctive conflicts in Pakistan i.e. a nationalist insurgency and Islamist militancy. Teachers, professors and school administrators have found their lives increasingly under threat in conflict-hit zones of the country. According to a report as many as 142 terrorist attacks were reported on educational institutions in 2011 compared to 129 attacks in the previous year. Similarly, the number of such attacks for years 2009 and 2008 stood at 188 and 119 respectively. Of 142 attacks reported in 2011, 79 were witnessed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 56 in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and two in Balochistan. The ratio of attacks on educational institutions was almost evenly distributed between the government-run male and female educational institutions, as girls’ schools suffered 62attacks against51attacks targeting boys’ schools.

Public education sector in KPK and FATA has suffered immensely amid the ongoing violence and conflict. Taliban militants have frequently bombed or torched educational institutes across the length and breadth of FATA and KPK. Initially, the schools and colleges in FATA and KP came under militant attacks because most of schools were used as base camps by security forces for their operations against the militants. Secondly, militants target girls’ schools because they are opposed to girls’ education, which they deem ‘un-Islamic’. Thirdly, since most of the educational institutions, except private schools, are government properties so they naturally become vulnerable to militant attacks. Moreover, large scale internal displacements, due to military operations, have also forced many students to discontinue their education. Following the devastation caused by seasonal monsoon floods in 2010—which provided militants with an ideal opportunity to reorganize themselves in KP and FATA—the frequency of attacks on educational institutes increased manifold.

Several academicians and educationists have been killed in KPK and FATA for publically expressing their views which are contrary to the ideology preached by the militant groups. For instance in October 2010 two TTP militants shot dead the pro-Vice Chancellor (VC) and noted religious scholar DrFarooq Khan along with his assistant outside his clinic in Mardan district. Abdullah Azam Brigade linked to TTP claimed responsibility for the attack. The spokesperson for the brigade disclosed in a call that Dr.Farooq was killed for speaking against the Taliban at every forum and for declaring suicide bombing as un-Islamic. Similarly, as mentioned earlier, DrAjmal the pro-Vice Chancellor (VC) of Islamia College University (ICU) and the cousin of ANP Chief AsfandayarWali Khan was kidnapped by militants from Peshawar when he was leaving his residence at Professor’s Colony for his office.

singing national anthem. For instance on October 25, 2010 militants of Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) threw pamphlets into the educational institutions of the province, warning teachers and staff not to sing Pakistan ’s national anthem or hoist national flag. The pamphlets warned them of dire consequences for non-compliance.

Such threats and targeted killings of teachers have prompted a brain-drain in the educational institutions. A good number of academicians have either resigned from their duties to take up news jobs in government or private universities in other parts of the country, opted for premature retirements or went on a long leave.

At societal level the best way to counter the agenda of militants and creeping radical trends in our ranks is to ensure an easy access to quality education to the masses, especially in the conflict-hit areas. So far, the government response to counter-terrorism in conflict hit areas is limited to spending on the military operations of security forces, raising anti-Taliban Peace Committees (locally known as lashkars) and rehabilitation of the displaced population. Unfortunately, very little attention has been paid to rehabilitate the destroyed educational institutes. The efforts to rebuild and rehabilitate are less than impressive and lack a broader vision.

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