Extremist threatens to bomb girls' school

A religious extremist in have threatened to bomb a girls' school in Taxila in Pakistan's Pubjab province, if the teachers and students do not wear veils. The principal of the local government high school received a letter from an unidentified man who threatened to bomb the school if the female students and teachers did not wear veils.After receiving the threat, the school administration immediately told the police and they put the school on high alert and deployed armed policemen at the school gate. Security personnel in plainclothes have also been deployed at the school.Some of the girls at the schools, aged between nine and 10 were seen wearing veils. “Yes we have received a threatening letter from a religious fanatic and we are scared,” Shakeela, acting principal of the school told the Pakistani daily Dawn. She said the school management did not keep the threat secret and told the students about it. We have told the students that nothing will happen if they wear a veil, she added.