Girls’ schools targeted by extremists in Pakistan

In a region of Pakistan south of Peshawar, shots ring out constantly as weapons are tested by buyers of guns at shops in Darra Adam Khel. Guns and munitions of all types are manufactured by the people who live in the region. Now those weapons are being targeted at schools for girls. Over the past two months, at least two schools in the area have been bombed. The attacks bode ill for girls in a part of the world where the literacy rate for women is about 10% on average. Read more at the IRIN website.