Pakistani Army Claims Arrest of Conspirators in Campus Attack

Security is beefed up at the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016.

Officials say a northwestern Pakistani university where Islamic militants gunned down 21 students and teachers last week has reopened for classes amid tight security.

The students and teachers paid rich tributes to the martyrs and offered special dua for eternal peace of the victim.

He reiterated that phone calls were made from Afghanistan to carry out the attack, adding that investigation was still underway to confirm financial resources of terrorists.

They also demanded construction of watch towers on the boundary wall after every 100 yards, installation of floodlights, latest CCTV cameras and optical fiber on campus, and provision of a fire tender, ambulance, walkie-talkie sets and walkthrough gates to the university.

“The meeting decided that since the students, their parents and relatives are in shock, and so is the staff, it is better to close the university”, Khalil said.

Among those killed in Wednesday’s deadly campus attack was 32-year-old assistant chemistry professor Syed Hamid Husain, who died saving his students by firing back at Taliban militants.

This was the second major attack on an education institution after terrorists massacred 144 people at a Peshawar school in Dec 2014 – the most brutal act of terror in the country’s history.

However, on Saturday a Pakistani army spokesman said the attack was masterminded by Khalifa Omar Mansoor, a Pakistani Taliban commander, and managed by his deputy Qari Zakir. The Registrar of the Bacha Khan University said the administration has demanded of the government to provide all the teachers as well as management officials of the organization with weapons as well as the licenses. “For Kashmiris, this is not a day to celebrate but a day of mourning, a day of catastrophe, when their power of self determination was taken from them by occupiers”, Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, Secretary General World Kashmir Awareness, said in a statement issued in Washington.

Ameen Rehman has also been identified as one of the terrorists and his data confirmed by the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), DG ISPR said.

We also came today and we will continue to come over here in the future.

The pro-Taliban faction behind the attack at Bacha Khan University posted video footage on Friday in which the militants promised more attacks on schools and universities throughout the country.

“The students who met me are saying that no one can frighten them”.