And, perhaps worst of all, terrorists and extremists have been targeting schools, blowing up their buildings and threatening their teachers, particularly in the northern part of the country. In a particularly tragic incident last December, terrorists attacked young students and teachers at a school in Peshawar.
事实上，目前有近六百万巴基斯坦儿童在学校大门外徘徊，更有多得多的儿童无法学习基本数学和阅读技能。辍学率很高。此外，也许最糟糕的是，恐怖分子和极端分子将学校作为目标，炸毁学校建筑，威胁学校教师，在巴基斯坦北部尤其猖獗。在去年12月的一起惨绝人寰的事件中，恐怖分子袭击了白沙瓦（Peshawar）一座学校的年轻学生和教师。