Suddenly, I felt something wrong had happened to my beloved shaheed mentor.” Dr Amna Afreen was squeezed into the back seat of a Toyota Probox station-wagon, travelling at speed down the Nipa Overpass on Karachi’s bustling University Road when the gunman opened fire.
News Archive
April 21, 2015
Police in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has trained nearly 11,000 security guards this year for the protection of educational institutes in the aftermath of the 2014 Taliban attack on a school here.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police department has so for trained 10,727 security guards for educational institutions in the first quarter of the current year across the province while 10,610 guards are awaiting training, said a police spokesman today.
April 17, 2015
Students have been shut out of Yemen’s classrooms since the Saudi-led air attacks started on March 26. Those attacks have also killed hundreds of schoolchildren and damaged schools and universities.
April 17, 2015
A security guard was injured in a firing incident outside St. Francis High School in Lahore’s Bahar Colony when he tried to stop dacoits from stealing a motorbike.
April 14, 2015
One year ago, on April 14, 2014, 276 teenage girls staying in the dormitories of a government secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, northeast Nigeria, were abducted by Boko Haram. Of the original total, 57 managed to escape, leaving 219 still missing. They remain unaccounted for to this day.
April 13, 2015
Around 800,000 children have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the conflict in northeast Nigeria between Boko Haram, military forces and civilian self-defence groups – according to a new report from UNICEF.
April 13, 2015
Schools in the rebel-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo have been closed for a week after an airstrike on a primary school was reported to have killed five children and three teachers.
April 09, 2015
Students and teachers at an institution for higher learning in northern Kenya were rudely awakened Thursday last week to the sound of gunshots. By the end of the day, more than 140 of them died at the hands of gunmen affiliated with al-Shabab.
April 09, 2015
It has been nearly a year since the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from their school in the town of Chibok in northern Nigeria on April 14, 2014. This week, on the website for the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, I will be publishing pictures of the missing girls.
April 06, 2015
Three students were killed on Tuesday during an air raid launched by the Saudi-led Arab coalition on a military base controlled by the Shiite Houthi movement, a base that was located near a school in central Yemen.
