Entrance to the boys hostel in Bacha Khan University that was the scene of the bloodiest carnage.
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“COAS asked for their (Afghan leaders’ and Resolute Support Commander) cooperation in locating and targeting those responsible for this heinous act (attack on Bacha Khan University) and bring them to justice”.
At least 60 people have been killed in various terror attacks in Pakistan since the start of 2016. Gunmen stormed Bacha Khan University named af… Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, Pakistan.
The video also shows the four attackers who are said to have carried out the university assault practising with assault rifles at an undisclosed location. Ambulances raced away, taking the wounded to hospitals. Hussain was subsequently shot and later died from his wounds.
“[Hussein] was holding a pistol in his hand”, he explained.
The Taliban faction led by Mansoor had also claimed responsibility behind a deadly attack on a school in Peshawar city of Pakistan late in 2014, which left at least 130 children dead. Four attackers have been killed. The attack coincided with the anniversary of Khan’s death in 1988. Even Nobel-laureate Malala Yausanzai who championed education for girls in the Swat Valley under Taliban occupation was the target for Taliban bullets.
“Initial investigations reveal that attackers were in contact with their handlers reportedly operating from Afghanistan”, Khalilullah said during the weekly briefing here in Islamabad.
Pakistan’s prime minister has vowed to fight to the end and destroy “the menace of terrorism” as a major battle is unfolding in the country’s northwest. “Their ability to strike back has been considerably destroyed”.
The splinter group’s chief, Umar Mansoor, is believed to have fled to neighbouring Afghanistan in 2014 when the military had launched a full-scale ground offensive against militant hideouts in the tribal areas.
“We are not safe”, Ajun Khan, who lost his only son Asfand in the attack on the Peshawar school, said on Wednesday.
Flags on official buildings and the national parliament were flying at half-staff and police stepped up security at schools and educational centres across the country.
In a statement, he reaffirmed that attacks against students, teachers, or schools can never be justified.
There’re around 64,000 educational institutions in the province alone, he said, and defended measures already taken. He said the university administration refused a proposal of setting up a police checkpoint on the campus, but that police patrols toured there twice a day.
Police said his death did not change the earlier toll of 21 as one of the dead had previously been counted twice.
Several Pakistani opposition politicians criticized the government’s efforts to combat militancy.
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After the Peshawar attack, the government promised to set up a joint Intelligence Directorate, but that has not happened yet.
