The Washington Post – Tahir Andrabi and Asim Ijaz Khwaja
“The one year anniversary commemorations of the heinous attack on a Peshawar public school were barely over when gunmen once again went from classroom to classroom killing students and staff at a Pakistani university nearby. The sickening attack confirmed that the Taliban is waging a carefully considered ideological war in Pakistan — and the nation’s more than 200,000 public and private schools are now at the front lines. In doing so, they are attacking the one area of Pakistani society where there is clear reason for optimism, as the growth of low-cost private schools in recent decades has given more and more young people, particularly girls, access to education…Protecting more than 30 million children spread across thousands of locations is not something the security forces can accomplish by themselves…Ordinary citizens must affirm by their beliefs, words, and actions in everyday life that they recognize the danger that resides among them.”(more)