9th Pakistani school destroyed; fundies believed to be responsible

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<Police in Pakistan's remote Northern Areas said on Friday that a ninth school in five days had been attacked and destroyed.>

<Local officials have blamed hardline Islamists opposed to female education.>

<Eight of the schools were for girls, although the latest - burned down in a village near the town of Chilas on Thursday - was a boys' school.>

<However, others believe the latest incident shows a more general targeting of international aid agencies by people who regard the construction of community schools with their funding as un-Islamic.>