And I would like to know how BOMBS and MISSILES are going to IMPROVE the lives of THESE BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN?!!
How is DESTROYING THEIR VILLAGES, KILLING THEIR MEN, and TURNING THEM INTO REFUGEES HELPING?!!!
Children attended a class at a school in Qutbal, Pakistan, which is seeing an increase in the number of private schools (Associated Press).
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"They sat in one girl’s home telling their story, their faces uncovered only because no man was present. But when Mohammed Matloob, the father of one of the girls, walked into the room, the other three quickly pulled their head scarves over their faces. His daughter, Nagina, 16, ordered him to leave the room, which he did, with a surprised shrug."
Tomas Munita for The New York Times Hameeda Sarfraz, in the dark burqa, teaches Islamic religious lessons to children in her village, about 50 miles north of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Yeah, aren't the children beautiful?
I think they are some of the MOST BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN in the WHOLE WORLD and I WANT the KILLING to END RIGHT NOW!!!!!!
Okay, now that the seemingly daily diatribe against mass-murdering war crimes is done, this is the SECOND SUNDAY in a ROW that I have received some agenda-pushing garbage in my Boston Sunday Globe while a RAGING WAR is IGNORED!!
Part of a SICKENING PATTERN of PROPAGANDA that becomes TIRING, MSM!
Try something else, will ya, like the TRUTH!!!
"Education seen as hope for Pakistan; US to invest in private schools to fight radicalism" by Nahal Toosi, Associated Press | November 15, 2009
QUTBAL, Pakistan - The pupils love the Islamia Model School, one of thousands of private schools popping up in Pakistan. Unlike at area public schools, Islamia’s seven teachers show up regularly to work. Unlike at religious schools, its curriculum extends beyond Islam....
Pakistan is seeing a surge in private schools, a trend some find hopeful in a country where the government education system is decrepit and the other alternative is religious schools, known here as madrasas, which offer little education beyond memorizing the Koran and are seen as one source of Islamic militancy.
Sigh!
Well, those PAKISTAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS sound AS BAD as Amurkn schools!!!!!
And did you ever notice that JEWISH SCHOOLS are NEVER a PROBLEM to the Zionist AmeriKan MSM?
All the other religions in the world seem to CAUSE PROBLEMS with their schools!
The United States, for one, says it plans to invest in private schools as part of a multibillion-dollar aid package designed to erode extremism in the nuclear-armed country battered by Taliban attacks.
Do they ever use the adjective "nuclear-armed" when it comes to ISRAEL?!
You get the point, 'eh?
And I'M GLAD AmeriKa can BUILD UP PAKISTAN'S EDUCATION SYSTEM as OURS COLLAPSES and CRUMBLES like a WTC tower on 9/11!!!
Not like we have a BUDGET PROBLEM over here or anything.
“The quality of education in the public sector is deteriorating day by day,’’ said T.M. Qureshi, a Ministry of Education official. “When there’s a vacuum of quality, someone will fill it.’’
I'm beginning to realize that WE have MUCH IN COMMON with the PAKISTANI PEOPLE, America!!!!
According to UNESCO figures, Pakistan spends 2.9 percent of its gross domestic product on education, slightly less than India’s 3.2 percent and well below the United States’ 5.2 percent.
One reason education has historically been a low priority for Pakistani governments, experts say, is that the governing elite can afford to send their children to the best private schools or to academies abroad.
Yeah, THANK ALLAH the United States isn't like that!!!
Hey, AmeriKan MSM, do you ever get tired of shoveling such Muslim-hating, racist s***?
Another is reason cited is that the feudal structures in the rural areas that give landowners an incentive to keep farm workers uneducated and submissive.
Farm workers, American students, same thing.
Only about half of Pakistani adults can read, schools often lack basic amenities like water, teachers get away with absences, and the bureaucracy is cumbersome.
I keep waiting for SOMETHING DIFFERENT about the AWFUL PAKISTANI education system that isn't AmeriKan already.
But since the mid-1990s, small, inexpensive private schools, once an urban phenomenon, have been sprouting in earnest in the poorer countryside, offering relatively affordable tuition, according to a 2008 World Bank report....
The private schools tend to outperform their government peers academically, though generally speaking, standards are low across the board, said Tahir Andrabi, an economics professor at Pomona College in California who has studied the trend.
Yeah, THAT HAPPENS HERE, too!!!!!!!
In the big picture, proponents of private schools echo the argument for charter schools in the United States - that they can make schools better and children more educated, and in Pakistan’s case dent poverty and the appeal of extremism. Still, analysts say they are no cure-all, cautioning that insurgent movements emerge for reasons well beyond a glut of youth with little secular education.
Yeah, FLATTENING VILLAGES and MURDERING FAMILY and FRIENDS while TURNING a REGION into TENT-DWELLING REFUGEES during the COLD WINTER is probably MORE of a FACTOR!
“It’s better to have private schools than madrasas,’’ said Pervez Hoodbhoy, an academic and outspoken critic of Pakistan’s education policies. “On the other hand, a lot of these private schools teach a very high amount of religious content. It’s not a full solution.’’
English, the lingua franca from British colonial times that is still the key to career advancement.
So they can call us about our debts?
Like many schools in South Asia, the teaching appeared to be through memorization, not critical thinking.
Yeah, and THAT DIFFERS from AmeriKa HOW?
MSM, I AM SICK of the RACIST and ELITIST INSULTS of INNUENDO and LIES, 'kay?!!!!!
One teacher smacked a boy in the face for misunderstanding a math question.
Now I KNOW THEY ARE LYING!!!
Did the "REPORTER" ACTUALLY SEE THIS, because if he says so HE IS A LIAR!!!!
Yes, when GUESTS are TOURING the SCHOOL the teachers BEAT THE KIDS!!
You know, EVEN IF THAT HAPPENED, it would NOT HAVE OCCURRED in front of a WESTERN REPORTER and GUEST!!! Do AMERICAN TEACHERS BEAT THEIR KIDS in front of media or administration? Then WHY WOULD a Pakistani?
The pupils seemed content, nonetheless.
Yeah, little Pakistani boys and girls LIKE to be BEATEN!!!
The Muslim-hating, Zionist propaganda is GAGGING, world!!!
And this is considered "news."
Islamia doesn’t have enough room to add more grades, so older students eventually have to turn to the higher-level government schools or find other private schools, said the Islamia Model School in Qutbal owner and headmaster Mohammad Yaqoob Khan, a 52-year-old retired government teacher.
He said the government system is frustrating because there is little accountability and parents feel they have no voice in their children’s education.
Pakistanis, it is SO AMAZING HOW ALIKE we truly are!!!!!
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PESHAWAR - A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint outside Peshawar yesterday, killing 11 people, including four children, the latest in a wave of militant attacks that have claimed more than 300 lives in the past month. A Taliban commander claimed responsibility for the attack. Militants are trying to force the military to end an offensive in the border region of South Waziristan, where Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding (AP)."
Yup, the VIOLENCE is a BRIEF in the Boston Globe -- if it appears at all.
And HOW SAD that my LOCAL-YOKELS has to PICK UP the FULL PIECE and ELABORATE, America!!!
"Suicide attack kills 11 at NW Pakistan checkpoint
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing 11 people, including four children, the latest in a wave of militant attacks that have claimed more than 300 lives in the past month.
Yeah, that seemed familiar.
The attack on the outskirts of Peshawar solidifies the city's ominous status as a primary target for militants trying to force the military to end an offensive against their associates launched last month in the border region of South Waziristan, where al-Qaida and Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding. Strikes in the past week alone have killed more than 50 people in the city, including 10 at the regional office of Pakistan's top intelligence agency, which was targeted by a massive truck bombing Friday. The agency, the Inter Services Intelligence, has been overseeing much of the country's anti-terror campaign.
Also see: AmeriKan MSM Back to the Same Pack of Lies on Pakistan
On Saturday, a Taliban commander claimed responsibility for that attack and another targeting a police station the same day in neighboring Bannu district. He vowed the violence would continue. "The suicide bombers were trained by me and I have a lot more volunteers to carry out more attacks," Qari Hussain Mehsud told an Associated Press reporter by telephone. The reporter had met the commander in the past and recognized his voice.
Well how can you question that, huh? PFFFFT!!!
Security was tightened in and around Peshawar after those attacks. Police were manning checkpoints at all entry points to the city and were checking every vehicle, said a local government official, Sahibzada Mohammad Anis. It was one such checkpoint that was struck Saturday.
Little LATE NOW, cui bono?
"Suddenly, a car exploded with a big bang," said police official Malik Jehangir, who was working at the checkpoint. "There was a long queue of vehicles. One of our officials wanted to search the car when it exploded."
Liaqat Ali Khan, the city's police chief, said 11 people were killed, including two police officials. Four children and a woman were among the dead, while another 25 people were wounded, he said.
I simply REFUSE to BELIEVE that PIOUS MUSLIMS would do this to their own -- and a lying, Muslim-hating, war-promoting, agenda-pushing, Zionist propaganda sheet isn't going to convince me!
Taliban and al-Qaida fighters are waging a war against the Pakistani government because they deem it un-Islamic and are angry about its alliance with the United States.
Yeah, the TEN-FOLD INCREASE in PREDATOR MISSILE ATTACKS has NOTHING to do with it!
Predator Drones: Obama Is Waging A New War
The New American Foundation, quoted by Mayer in "The New Yorker," states Obama has authorized at a minimum 41 CIA missile strikes, or about one a week, that may have killed more than 500 people. This is a pace that has Obama authorizing more Predator drone strikes in Pakistan in 10 months, than G.W. Bush authorized the last three years of his administration.
This is the MAN of PEACE and CHANGE?
The insurgency began in earnest in 2007, and attacks have spiked since preparations for the offensive in South Waziristan began. The U.S. has urged Islamabad to persevere with its campaign against the Taliban, especially in South Waziristan because militants have used the area as a base to attack Western troops across the border in Afghanistan.
And if "insurgents" keep bombing, cui bono?
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said the terrorist attacks would not derail the military campaign. "They are doing it to divert our attention," he said. "We have the ability to deal with them."
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"Pakistani officials have blamed such attacks on the Taliban, but the group has reportedly denied being behind at least some of the blasts, making it more difficult for the government to convert public anger into greater support for the war."
WHO is DIVERTING WHO, cui bono puke!?
The army says it is making good progress in the battle, and a statement Saturday said seven militants were killed and four soldiers wounded in the latest fighting.
Remember, as we saw with Iraq, governments lie. Progress, yup.
The army's reports are nearly impossible to independently verify because access the region is restricted. Pakistan's army chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Saturday visited two towns -- Ladha and Sarrarogha -- that were key Taliban basis recently taken by the military.
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Kayani lauded the "swift and successful" conduct of operations, an army statement said.
Please, God, tell me they are going to STOP the OFFENSIVE!!!
The South Waziristan offensive follows a similar military push into the Swat Valley during the summer to wrestle control from the Taliban. The government has called the operation a success, but sporadic violence there continues, underscoring the difficulties the army faces. Pakistani troops killed eight militants in gunbattles Saturday in the valley's Charbagh town, army spokesman Maj. Mushtaq Ahmad said.
Yeah, for SOME REASON the NEVER-ENDING OFFENSIVES and GUN BATTLES are of NO INTEREST to the BOSTON GLOBE!
Instead, some BRAINWASHING, INDOCTRINATING, GLOBALIST SCHOOL PROGRAM is featured!!!!
And as I said, back to the lies:
"Anti-Taliban leaders attacked in Pakistan" by Associated Press | November 16, 2009
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Militants staged a pair of attacks against anti-Taliban figures in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing one of the men as part of an escalating campaign to weaken the country’s resolve to fight Islamic extremism.
Suspected militants have killed more than 300 civilians and security personnel in Pakistan in the past month in retaliation for an army offensive launched in the tribal area of South Waziristan, where Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding.
Yeah, I READ that SAME PARAGRAPH ABOVE!!
So AP is a CUT-and-PASTE OUTFIT, huh?
The government has supplemented its military campaigns by helping tribal leaders and local government officials set up militias to battle the Taliban. The militias, known as lashkars, have been compared to Iraq’s Awakening Councils, which helped US forces turn the tide against Al Qaeda there. As in Iraq, militants in Pakistan have targeted the leaders of such groups.
So WHICH WESTERN INTEL OUTFIT or WAR CONTRACTOR is RUNNING tyhe GUNMEN?
A group of militants opened fire on the house of an elder, Malik Sher Zaman, in the Bajur tribal region around midnight yesterday, killing him several months after he signed an agreement with the government to battle the Taliban, said Abdul Malik, a senior local official. The militants blew up part of his house in the Mamund area after the attack, he said.
Several hours later, more than a dozen militants opened fire on the house of an anti-Taliban mayor outside the main northwestern city of Peshawar, but security guards repelled the attack, killing three of the assailants, said
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No missiles authorized yesterday?
