As many as four terrorists entered Bacha Khan University in Charsadda district, roughly 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the city of Peshawar, on Wednesday morning, killing 20 people and injuring several others. The eyewitness also said he was inside the university a couple of minutes ago, and a lot of gunfire could be heard.
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The President said, “I am deeply saddened to learn of the barbaric terrorist attack on Bacha Khan University at Charasada, Pakistan today”.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister vowing to fight and destroy the Taliban and other militants, calling them a menace.
The attack revived painful memories of the Taliban assault on an army-run school in December 2014, in which gunmen killed around 150 people, almost all of them children.
The TTP arose in the early 2000s when the Pakistani military began hunting diverse militant groups in the tribal regions near the Afghan border.
Geology student Zahoor Ahmed said Hussain had warned him not to leave the building after the first shots were fired. Mohammad Khurasani said those who carry out such attacks should be tried before an Islamic court. “I see this as simply as retaliatory, that is the Taliban saying, ‘If you’re going to bring Pakistani special forces and the army up into our turf, you’re going pay a heavy price'”.
“These reprehensible attacks, against students and teachers in Pakistan and members of the media in Afghanistan, underscore the ongoing threat that terrorists pose to the region and to the peaceful and prosperous future we seek to build together”, said Ned Price, spokesperson of the National Security Council, the White House.
The latest attack comes despite a country-wide anti-terrorism crackdown.
The attack, which Amnesty International said could be branded a war crime, was also condemned globally, including by India, the European Union and the United States.
Bajwa said two cell phones were recovered from the scene and had yielded significant information about the attackers, he said.
“One student jumped out of the classroom through the window”. He said it was in revenge for the scores of militants the Pakistani security forces have killed in recent months.
The university had been packed with teacher and students with a poetry festival underway at the time of the deadly attack.
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Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said Pakistan’s economy was on the right trajectory and the government’s solid policies would boost the country’s economic conditions. The attackers were later contained inside two university blocks where the troops killed them, the army said.
