Terrorists attack Bacha Khan University in Peshawar

On Wednesday, heavily armed Taliban militants stormed the Bacha Khan University, named after the iconic Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, firing indiscriminately on students and teachers.

Security forces killed all four gunmen during the assault, and said they hoped to identify them “soon”.

The militants used the cover of thick, wintry fog to scale the walls of the university before entering buildings.

The attackers indiscriminately fired at anyone and everyone they saw. The attacks would continue, he warned.

Initially, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed the responsibility for he attack but denied it later as the official spokesperson in a message to the media outlets called the attack “un-Islamic”.

Defence Expert P.K. Sehgal yesterday condemned the attack and said the Taliban, which is taking revenge on the Pakistan Army, is making desperate attempts to overthrow the government in Islamabad.

The killing of young people “brings a lot of pain, despondency and hopelessness, and that arouses emotions against the government, the same government which claimed it had broken the back of the terrorists”, he said.

There are still dead inside, and the operation is ongoing, Bilal Faizi, a local emergency service spokesman told CNN.

Hussain was shot twice, once in the head and once in the chest, just above his heart. Images from inside the university showed a pool of blood on the floor of a dormitory and charred corpses of two alleged militants lying on a staircase.

“It is now painfully clear that putting to death more than 300 people in the year since, in the name of fighting “terrorism” has done nothing to prevent such tragedies”. An emergency has been declared in all hospitals in the town.

The Peshawar school attack was seen as having hardened Pakistan’s resolve to fight militants along its lawless border with Afghanistan.

As security forces combed the campus block by block after the massacre Wednesday, they counted the bodies of at least 21 students. Afghan sims were used in the phones, he said.

“We saw three terrorists shouting, ‘Allah is great!’ and rushing towards the stairs of our department”, he said.

He said initially all information can not be disclosed about the attackers, their handlers and locations due to the sensitivity of the incident. It yet again raised questions about whether security forces are able to protect the country’s educational institutions from extremists.

‘We are not safe, even parents do not feel safe, ‘ he said. “All forms of terrorism and all manner of support to them need to be completely eradicated”, he said.

Bajwa said the terrorists are on the run and attacking soft targets which reflects their frustration and fragility.

Later, the governor also visited the DHQ Hospital Charsadda where he inquired after the health of the victims.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif telephoned the governor and discussed the situation arising out of the terrorist attack. Sharif expressed sorrow and grief on the loss of precious lives in the terror attack.

Four suspected attackers also were killed in Wednesday’s bloodshed, officials said.