Pakistan Taliban commander vows more school attacks in video

A breakaway Taliban faction took responsibility for the university attack on Wednesday, which raised grim echoes of the 2014 school massacre that left 150 dead, 144 of them children.

On January 20, Bacha Khan University in Charsadda city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) was attacked by four Taliban militants.

Sources say Afghanistan has been asked to investigate the issue and find the culprits who allegedly masterminded Wednesday’s attack on Bacha Khan University.

The attack comes just weeks after Pakistan marked the first anniversary of the December 2014 Taliban massacre at a school in Peshawar.

“He would always help the students and he was the one who knew all their secrets because they would share all their problems with him”, 22-year-old geology student Waqar Ali said.

Malik also denied that Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) is behind Pathankot terror attack and went on to said that India itself is behind Pathankot attack.

CHARSADDA, Pakistan (AP) – When Islamic militants stormed the university campus in this Pakistani town, chemistry professor Hamid Hussain was carrying a concealed pistol.

Pakistani authorities have cleared a university in the northwest of the country which came under attack by gunmen.

“He appeared in the video along with the four assailants of Bacha Khan University attack, insisting that the Pakistani people must ‘repent of polytheism and democracy”.

The conflicting claims indicated further cracks within the ranks of the Taliban.

Girls’ schools have been particularly vulnerable to extremists’ attempts to prevent Western-style education.

According to eyewitnesses and officials, the terrorists scaled the back wall of the campus and entered the guest house of vice chancellor where they shot dead assistant caretaker Fakhre Alam.

He said no lesson was learnt from the heartbreaking incident of APS.

Mansoor described Pakistan’s educational institutions as “nurseries” for those who challenge Allah’s law.

‘We are not safe, even parents do not feel safe, ‘ he said.

“Most of the students and staff were in classes when the firing began”, Khan said.

“Militants want them [schools] shut down”, provincial education minister Arif Khan told the AFP news agency.

The Pakistani army has claimed the Charsadda attackers were managed by handlers across the border in Afghanistan.