On January 20th, twenty-three people were martyred in an attack on Bacha Khan University in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province which was claimed by a faction of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), barely a year after a massacre at a school in Peshawar that killed more than 150 people.
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University staff and students met on Monday, after briefly reopening the campus, to review security as at least 200 students protested outside to demand the government protect them.
Khan said the university has submitted a list of demands to the government, including the extension of the perimeter fence to 10 feet (three meters) high, the clearing of farmland within 100 feet (30 meters) of the campus and the widening of the main road to the school.
He said the four attackers, all killed in clashes with security forces in the university, crossed through the Torkham border point from Afghanistan and that the attack appeared to be coordinated from inside Afghanistan. One professor said some of his colleagues were demanding weapons for self-defense.
As reported, the Islamic militants had stormed the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda on 20 January putting to death 20.
Authorities say last week’s assault was planned and carried out by Pakistani Taliban militants based in neighbouring Afghanistan.
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The attackers had been provided shelter, transport and weapons, allegedly by the five suspects, as said by the military spokesman Lt. Gen AsimSalimBajwa. He said the soil of Afghanistan was used in attacks in Pakistan.
