The Taliban faction that has claimed responsibility for the massacre at a Pakistani university that killed 21 people earlier this week says that assault was just the beginning of more attacks to come.
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Mansoor described Pakistan’s educational institutions as “nurseries” for those who challenge Allah’s law. He says his group will hit the “evil democratic” system at its base.
The five suspects allegedly provided the attackers with shelter, transport and weapons, said military spokesman Lt. Gen Asim Salim Bajwa.
The statement also added that the Afghan government understands there is no good or bad terrorists since the terrorists are only pursuing to spread terror, insisting on joint and bold efforts to combat the menace of the terror in the region.
Student, Tasbeeh Ullah, saw a gunman coming up the stairs. He became unconscious and woke up in a hospital, with broken bones.
The school may have been targeted because it is named for a late secular icon, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a lifelong activist and contemporary of Mahatma Gandhi who shared his commitment to nonviolent resistance of British rule and opposed the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan.
It stated, “He reaffirms that attacks against students, teachers or schools can never be justified”.
Students of various federal educational institutions on Thursday staged demonstration against terrorists attack at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda.
The Pakistan and New Zealand cricket teams observed a minute-long silence before their third T20 match on Friday to honours the victims of the brutal terrorist attack on the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda.
Soldiers and police raced to the scene and exchanged fire with the attackers. Charsadda is a relatively smaller town about 50 kilometers from Northwestern Pakistani city Peshawar.
At least 60 people have been killed in various terror attacks in Pakistan since the start of 2016.
Pakistan’s military surrounded the university campus and carried out a clearing operation. His students managed to get away as he single-handedly took on the militants during the assault Wednesday that killed 19 students and another professor and wounded 22.
Snipers took out the last remaining militants as they tried to flee from this rooftop through stairs behind the wall.
Mansoor is the de facto operational head of the TTP in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where Charsadda in located, reported Pakistani newspaper Dawn.
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The Pakistani military claimed that the attack was coordinated by the terrorist groups using the Afghan soil.
