UN, US condemn terrorist attack on Bacha Khan Varsity

Ban called for those behind the attack be brought to justice, adding that there must be “proportionate and necessary measures to be taken to ensure that schools in areas of insecurity and conflict are adequately protected”, Haq said.

Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa, a Pakistan army spokesman, said in a series of tweets that the Bacha Khan University attack was coordinated “from a location in Afghanistan through Afghan cell phones by an operative of the Taliban alliance Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan”.

The spokesperson said Pakistan maintained contacts with the Afghan government at various levels to find a solution to different issues related to the security.

Nearly surprisingly, attendance in different schools was not reported low considering the fact the parents and students must be traumatized following the second attack on an education institution after Army Public School (APS) storming in 2014 that killed more than 140 persons, mostly children. He did, however, indicate that the Taliban may be involved as he said, “We cleared the sanctuaries of terrorists after which certain people crossed the border towards Afghanistan and are operating from there”.

The vice chancellor of the university said the killed include one professor from the chemistry department of the university, two female students, four security guards and a gardener of the university. In sheer terror, hundreds of students and others fled the campus or bolted into classrooms in search of safety.

At least 20 people have been killed, including students and a professor, in an attack on a university in northwest Pakistan. The attack coincided with the anniversary of Khan’s death in 1988.

The terrorists entered the university campus via a low wall at the back of the compound and made their way across the grounds.

“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.

The attackers indiscriminately fired at anyone and everyone they saw. “All villagers came to defend the university with whatever they got their hands on”, he said. We heard them walking around, but they moved away.

Seven other survivors were in stable condition and being treated in local hospitals, officials said.

Most of the victims were Bacha Khan students.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in a statement that the government was “determined and resolved in our commitment to wipe out the menace of terrorism from our homeland”.

“Sharif is deeply grieved”, his office said.

Wednesday’s attack also has symbolic significance, as Bacha Khan University is named a Pashtun leader who believed in nonviolent struggle. “Prayers with the injured”.

According to sources, all four terrorists belonged to Afghanistan and were part of the Tariq Geedar group. It also heightens fears that institutions like Edwardes College in Peshawar, where I was principal for four years until 2010, will be attacked. The TTP is split into many factions.

Chief Minister (CM) Pervez Khattak cut his foreign tour and returned after learning about the news while provincial ministers reached the site as well. Pashtuns form the dominant ethnic group in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.