Local police stated that a government high school was bombed by unknown militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in northwest Pakistan early Friday (June 6, 2025). The militants exploded the government high school with explosives in Akbari village in the Gul Imam police station jurisdiction of the Tank district, police sources said, several rooms of the school collapsed from the explosion.

No group has claimed responsibility as of yet for the bombing of the school. However, splinter groups of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) that are active in the Tank district are opposed to girls’ education and target their schools.

Over the last decade, local NGOs have reported that over 450 schools in the Province have been destroyed in attacks of this nature, resulting in students either no longer attending schools or attending classes next to destroyed buildings or rubble.

Until 2019, Pakistan saw repeated attacks on girls’ schools, particularly in the Swat Valley and across northwest Pakistan, including the former tribal regions where the Pakistani Taliban had a strong presence.

In 2012, insurgents attacked a teenage activist and student named Malala Yousafzai, who ultimately won the Nobel Peace Prize for her advocacy work in support of the education of girls.