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A doctor who treated the victims of an
acid attack on a college van in the city of Parachinar
in northern Pakistan
The Pakistani Taliban have taken
responsibility for the attack in threatening pamphlets distributed around the
city. They also warn local girls against going to school, Dr. Shaban Ali said.
"We will never allow the girls of
this area to go and get a Western education," said Qari Muhavia, the local
Pakistani Taliban leader, when contacted by CNN by telephone.
"If and when we find any girl from
Parachinar going to university for an education we will target her (in) the
same way, so that she might not be able to unveil her face before others,"
Muhavia said.
The Pakistani Taiban's violent campaign to
stop girls from getting an education was brought to international attention
early last month when gunmen in the Swat
Valley
Shahab Uddin, a local government official
from Kurram Agency in Pakistan
Fifteen students, boys and girls, from Kohat University
Two girls, Zahida and Nabila, and one more
boy had suffered burns, Uddin said, while Mohammad Ali, a fourth boy, was the
student who was shot.
"After throwing acid on the students
the assailants opened fire on the van," Uddin said.
He said the girls who were targeted
"are alive and out of danger now, but their faces are badly scarred."
Ali, of the district headquarters
hospital, confirmed that four students were brought into the emergency room for
treatment, three with acid burns and one with a bullet wound.
"We are all graduate students
studying in the master's program, and we were coming back home after taking our
exams," one of the girls who was targeted told CNN under condition of
anonymity.
"We don't know who the attackers
were, but when our vehicle reached Doranai they stopped us and threw acid on
our faces ... now we are scared of going back to our studies," said
another girl, who also asked not to be named because she didn't have permission
from her family to speak.
"Other passengers who were sitting in
the vehicle were also wounded, but they were not as serious as Zahida and
Nabila," she said.
Acid throwing is frequently used as a
weapon in Pakistan
Another recent acid attack in Pakistan
The 15-year-old girl suffered severe burns
on her face and chest, but her parents initially refused to get her medical
help, Ayub said. She was eventually taken to a hospital a day later and died
from her injuries.
"Her father said she wasn't coming to
her senses so the parents threw acid on her to save their honor," Ayub
told CNN.
Anwasha's mother claimed she had seen the
boy and girl secretly meet and had seen her frequently speaking on a cell
phone, Ayub said.
The parents, who live in a suburban
village outside the Kashmiri city of Muzaffarabad
The Taliban in Afghanistan
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