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School set afire

KABUL: Unknown armed men set on fire a primary school in Taliban's former stronghold Kandahar on Saturday night, the director of the education department in the province said on Sunday. ``The enemies of peace torched the primary school of Qabail in the 9th precinct of Kandahar city Saturday night and fled away,'' Hayatullah Rafiqi told Xinhua. ``The culprits also tied the hands of the two guards of the school and abandoned them on the ground,'' the official added. The school admits both girls and boys. The regime of Taliban during its six-year reign banned girls' schools and confined women to their houses. Mr. Rafiqi said that Taliban militias through distributing pamphlets and night letters had asked girls not to go to school. It is the fourth school that has been burned down over the past two months in the southern regions. — Xinhua

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