Girls college attacked in northwest Pak,19 injured

A function was underway at the college at the time of the attack.

District police chief Waqif Khan said 19 girls were injured.

He described the condition of nine of the injured as critical but dismissed reports that some persons were killed in the attack.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Taliban militants,who consider the education of girls as “un-Islamic”,have attacked scores of girls’ educational institutions in northwest Pakistan over the past few years.