“Militants blew up Rahim Gul Primary School on Saturday in the Garbal district of the Safi area of Mohmand Agency. The girls’ school building was completely destroyed because of the explosion. However, no one was hurt in the attack,” local administrative officials said.

Security forces conducted a search operation after the attack in pursuit of the perpetrators.

The incident was the third of its kind in the region so far this week. On Friday, two government-run schools were badly damaged as they were targeted by militants in the Navagai and Mandil districts of the Bajaur agency — a major militant stronghold in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border.

Pro-Taliban militants, who are opposed to girls’ education, have blown up or burnt hundreds of state-run schools in northwest Pakistan in recent years

Iran — Hojatolislam Walizadeh in a meeting with the Administrators and liaisons of Art and Cultural Mosques’ Societies of Nehbandan expressed: The next year has been named “Education and Vision” for the Art and Cultural Mosques’ Societies and in the year 1390 we will be witnessed for the growth and transformation in the Societies.

He stated: currently 187 Societies are active all over the province which will pass 200 in next year.
Walizadeh added: presently in South Khorasan province, 150 libraries, 21 Quran centers and 14 kindergarten nurseries and 7 Shabestan News Agency Offices are active.

By referring that in third visit of the Government cabinet, 200 billion Rials have been allocated for the cultural activities, he called on the officials to pay special attention to the mosques.

Demolish Masjid Al-Haram, demands Saudi Sheikh

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: A Salfi Saudi cleric on Wednesday March 17 has called for demolishing the Grand Mosque (Masjid Al-Haram) in the holy city of Makkah and replacing it with a new one featuring “20 to 30” floors in pretext of preventing men and women from mingling during pilgrimages (sha’a’er ot-Tawaf was Sa`ee) which has been in Muslim practice since centuries, says a report in daily Akhbar Al Khaleej.

Sheikh Yousaf Al-Ahmed, an Islamic scholar and a teacher in Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, was speaking during a phone-in on a Saudi satellite television show.

A viewer posed video footage of the show on the YouTube website, dubbing the cleric “the new Ibraha” after the tyrant who wanted to demolish the Ka’aba 14 centuries ago.

The present Grand Mosque has three floors and is the largest mosque in the world. It is built around the Kaaba, the most sacred place in Islam.

Earlier, the Saudi government has razed a number of holy sites that belonged to the Prophet Muhammad (s), his holy progeny, wives and companions in the holy cities of Makkah and Medinah etc sending a wave of anger in the Muslim world.

Three Shia men were shot dead in Saryab Road area in Quetta on Saturday by the unknown terrorists.
According to the Shiite News Correspondent, Police said that unknown motorcyclists opened fire at a car in Sabzi Mandi (fruit Market) area in suburb of Saryab, Hazar Ghangi.
Three Shia men martyred on the spot while one injured seriously. Injured has been taken to Bolan Medical Complex. Investigation of the incident is underway.

Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of Sindh Police arrested the  two terrorists of banned outfit  Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) during a raid conducted in Orangi Town, on Friday.
The sources in SIU claimed that the raid was conducted on Friday morning on a hideout of outlawed terrorist organization militants in Orangi Town Sector 14/C and arrested the terrorists identified as Ishtiaq and Faiz wanted in many cases.
However, The Shiite News Correspondent in his exclusive report informed that the Orangi Town residents on Thursday night caught a cleric of the area and his companion with an explosive device. They later handed him over to the area Police.
The  Police arrested banned Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP) terrorists Maulana Ishtiaq Azmi cleric of a Mosque of terrorist group in Orangi Town and his associate Faiz.
The people of the area confirmed that residents of the area heard explosion and rushed to the hilltop of the Orangi Town, where some suspicious people were trying to escape. The brave residents caught both terrorists and later handed them over to the Police.
The Police sources confirmed that Ishtiaq Azmi and Faiz were affiliated with the outlawed terrorist’s outfits of Sipah-e-Sahaba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and they were testing the explosive device before reaching the target when they were arrested.
It is pertaining to mention here that the terrorist outfit of Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP) is restore their activities in the Sindh province as the Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan and biased Sindh religious affairs Advisor Mufti Ferozuddin Hazarwi met the defunct outfit SSP chief Ahmed Ludhanvi and assured him about their support to the terrorist banned organization.

One shia martyred and two injured in the result of firing by the activists of outlawed terrorist outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba in Dera Ghazi Khan.
According to the Shiite news correspondent, Renowned Shia Social worker Naseem Abbas martyred, his father Ghulam Rasool and relative Matloob Hussain got injured in the firing at Dera Ghazi Khan (Choti Zarreen) by the terrorist of outlawed organization Hafiz Abdullah and his companions. The residents of the areas were shifted the injured to the local hospital for the treatment.
Outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba terrorist group is not only activated in Punjab but its also spread the network of the banned outfit across the country and its sectarian activities have been increased in Sindh province after the Punjab, where the Punjab government has given the free hand to the terrorist organization to perform their activities and restore their network across the Punjab.
The outfit has disguised themselves in the name of Ahle sunnat Jamaat but the question mark is why Government and its so called agencies are quiet and no steps have been taken against such type of sectarian deeds??….