Swat varsity’s female student injured in attack

MINGORA: Unidentified gunmen shot and injured a girl student of the University of Swat, police said on Friday.

They said that Falak Noor, student of the College of Home Sciences, was on way to the university when armed men opened fire on her, leaving her critically injured.The student was taken to the Saidu Sharif Central Hospital where she was stated to be in a critical condition.

The family sources claimed that the student was targetted near the offices of senior government officials of Swat and Malakand division.However, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Malakand range, Azad Khan disputed the family’s claim and argued that the girl was attacked somewhere else.

“Apparently it’s not an act of terrorism. Police are probing the incident and we cannot say anything concrete before receiving the report,” he maintained. The incident caused concern among the people, particularly the girl students in the twin cities of Mingora and Saidu Sharif.

In the last such incident in Swat, Malala Yousafzai was fired at in 2012 by local Taliban militants in Mingora. She survived the attack and was treated first in military hospitals in Peshawar and Rawalpindi before being flown to the UK for treatment. The attack made her a world celebrity and finally propelled her to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.