Bomb targeting police chief kills 1, wounds 6 in Pakistan

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Islamist militants have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in the northwest of the country in recent years.

QUETTA, Nov 17 (agencies): Police say a bomb targeting a police chief's vehicle in southwestern Pakistan has killed one person and injured six others.
Officer Mohammed Zaman says Quetta Police Chief Shahid Nizam Durrani was not harmed in Tuesday's attack.
Zaman says the blast in Quetta was caused by a bomb planted on a motorcycle that was timed to explode when Durrani's vehicle passed by. Quetta is the capital of southwestern Balochistan province.
Zaman said one passer-by was killed and three others were wounded. Three police officers who were in the vehicle were also wounded.
Baloch nationalists have been waging a violent campaign against the government for years to demand greater income from gas and minerals extracted from the province.
Meanwhile: Taliban militants blew up a girls' school in Pakistan's Khyber district Tuesday, the third such attack in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan so far this month, officials said.
An intelligence official in the area said Taliban attacked the government-run school overnight when no one was at the property.
"The girls' middle school was badly damaged because of the explosion, now the school building is almost out of use. The classrooms, desks and chairs were also damaged," Farooq Khan, a local administrative official told AFP.
The incident took place at Yousaf Kely village near Bara town, around 20 kilometres (13 miles) south of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province which has been hit by five suicide attacks in the last eight days.
Islamist militants have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in the northwest of the country in recent years.
Nearly 200 schools were destroyed in the Swat valley alone during a two-year Taliban uprising to enforce sharia law in a district once favoured by Western tourists for its ski slopes and mountain air.