We got scared, thought that the Taleban had arrived.
Neither Washington nor Islamabad immediately confirmed the announcement by the Taleban.
Talks between Pakistan's new government and Taleban leaders broke down in June.
In addition, 31 Taleban insurgents were killed and 18 were arrested, he said.
The Taleban have destroyed 150 government schools over the past year,
most of them for girls.
During the morning assembly we were
told not to wear colourful clothes as the Taleban would object to it…”.
Our annual exams are due after the vacations but
this will only be possible if the Taleban allow girls to go to school.
Until now, the US military has insisted that far fewer civilians
died in what it says was a successful operation against Taleban militants in the area.
This time round,
the girls were not too excited about vacations because they knew if the Taleban implemented their edict they would not be
able to come to school again.
The White House believes that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency and other
military bodies have long helped fund and arm the Taleban for ideological reasons,
but also to counter rising Indian influence in Afghanistan.
The Taleban want to impose the law of terror in the country,
but I want to tell them, if you have to live in Pakistan you will have to follow its constitution,” he said.