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EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK 2014Matta, Swat Valley, because he had refused to followthe dress code. 1241 On 12 June 2009, the head teacherof a religious school in Lahore was killed in his officewithin the religious school complex during a suicidebomb attack. He appeared to have been targeted forhis outspoken view that suicide bombings and otherTaliban tactics were un-Islamic. 1242Accusations of blasphemy adversely affected teachersas well as students. A Lahore teacher was threatenedand went into hiding after omitting a section of areligious text she was copying by hand anderroneously juxtaposing a line about the ProphetMohammad and one about street beggars. 1243 A 200-strong mob stormed the Farooqi Girls’ High Schoolwhere she taught, accused her of blasphemy,Students sit inside a vehicle after a bomb exploded outsidetheir school in Peshawar, Pakistan, on 19 April 2010, killing ayoung boy and wounding 10 other people.© 2010 AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjadvandalized the school and set fire to the property. The77-year-old head teacher of the school where shetaught was arrested despite not having seen the textuntil after the accusations of blasphemy emerged. 1244Attacks on education aid workersPakistani and foreign organizations promotingeducation were unable to operate freely in many areasof the country due to the threat of militant violence,notably in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KP).171