‘Taliban poster’ outside women college tells them to quit education or get killed

A poster allegedly by proscribed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) outside a women degree college in Samarbagh area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Lower Dir district has warned the students to abandon education or face dire consequences.

According to the principal of Government Ghazi Umara Khan Degree College, the poster was pasted outside the institution’s main entrance on Friday night.

The principal has also sent a letter to the KP Higher Education Department director, asking for security measures for safeguarding the lives of the female students.

The poster threatened the students with death if they did not stop coming to the college.

The college management has also informed the Lower Dir administration and the police about the development.

While the poster has left worried the parents who demand of the district administration to probe the matter and take appropriate preventive measures, the TTP, in a statement, has reportedly distanced itself from the same.

It is pertinent to note that one of Pakistan’s only two Nobel laureates, Malala Yousafzai, was also shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for raising her voice for girl education.

The attempt on Malala’s life was made while she was on a school bus in the Swat district that was back then under Taliban occupation.