Police said that Bacha Khan University (BKU) was reopened and additional security personnel have been deployed to take care of the university’s security.
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Four Pakistani Taliban gunmen killed 21 people at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda in the country’s northwest on Wednesday after scaling its rear walls, battling security guards and then firing into packed classrooms and hostels.
Moreover, the administration was also informed that anything awful could happen in the varsity but the university’s administration turned a deaf ear to their notice.
Bajwa also said that, on top of the identification of the conspirators, one of the attackers, from a tribal region of Pakistan, had been identified.
The incident took place more than a year after a school massacre by the Taliban in nearby Peshawar, which prompted nationwide mourning and outrage.
“Students wanted to resume the classes”, he said.
“Students are afraid”, he said.
The Afghan envoy was told that during the attack on Bacha Khan University, Afghan SIMs were used.
Video footage of the fighters was released by Mansoor on Friday.
The university, however, was closed indefinitely later.
“We made a decision to keep the university closed for some time so we can fix the damaged building and further improve the security situation”, Fazal Rahim Marwat, a professor at the university, told Reuters. He also vowed more attacks on schools in the future.
The five suspects allegedly provided the attackers with shelter, transport and weapons, said military spokesman Lt. Gen Asim Salim Bajwa.
All four attackers were killed in the shootout with Pakistani troops at the Charsadda campus. There is no doubt in the fact that the people across the province specially the parents feel insecure after the terrible attack on the APS Peshawar in December 2014 and followed by a repetition of deadly episode in Bacha University in Charsadda hardly a week back and every morning they have to accumulate lot of courage sending apples of their eyes to schools, colleges and universities.
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Afghan officials have often blamed Pakistan for harbouring Afghan Taliban leaders and allege that many attacks in Afghanistan were planned on Pakistani soil.
