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2006 Pakistan madrassa air strike
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on Monday, 30 October 2006 a Pakistan madrassa was air striked by Pakistani forces led by helicopters.[1]
While the military reported that 80 militants were killed, an eyewitness told BBC that the victims were local students who had resumed studies after the Muslim Eid holidays. A leading local politician says the dead were innocent. The leader of the madrassa, the cleric Maulana Liaqat, was among the dead.[1]
A cabinet minister from Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, Siraj ul-Haq, has resigned in protest over the attack.
- This is a very wrong action. They [the victims] were not given any warning. This was an unprovoked attack on a madrassa. They were innocent people"
Siraj ul-Haq told the Associated Press before resigning.[1]