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| Bacha Khan University attack: Police comb Charsadda, arrest several suspects |
| 2016-01-22 |
| [DAWN] A First Information Report (FIR) was registered on Thursday against the four unidentified bully boyz who attacked Charsadda's Bacha Khan University, killing 20 people and injuring at least a dozen others. An injured university employee, Muhammad Fayyaz, expired this morning in the Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit at Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Lady Reading Hospital ─ where two others maimed in the attack remain at death's door. The corpse count now stands at 21. The FIR lodged was lodged on behalf of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) by Station House Officer Irfanullah of the Serdheri cop shoppe in CTD Mardan under sections 7 and 15AA of the Anti-Terrorism Act. Search operations in Charsadda are ongoing as police comb the area around the university. Several suspects have been incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! During initial investigations, four grenades, 16 magazines and 240 cartridges were recovered from the site of the attack, CTD sources said. Several schools were closed last weekend after intelligence suggested bully boyz were planning an attack, according to Muhammad Amir Rana, director of the private Pakistain Institute for Peace Studies. A Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... government front man said they were closed as part of a security drill. Fazle ur-Rahim Marwat, the university's vice chancellor, said security forces alone could not keep students safe, saying it required a move away from an extreme interpretation of Islam. After the Peshawar attack, the government promised to set up a joint Intelligence Directorate, but that has not happened yet. "The government is trying to develop a response but is facing capacity issues," Rana said, particularly in the area of intelligence-sharing among the powerful intelligence agencies and the police. Rana, whose institute tracks krazed killer movement, said the divisions in the Taliban over who carried out Wednesday's attack probably has more to do with a fear of retribution than a reflection of a deeply divided Taliban. The backlash that followed APS attack was so severe that it probably left the Taliban "reluctant to take credit", he added, noting that Afghan cops joined in operations against Pak Taliban hideouts afterward. In a presser after the attack, Pakistain military front man Lt. Gen Asim Bajwa stated the attackers carried mobile phones with Afghan numbers and "were in touch with their handlers in Afghanistan." He added that the bully boyz hate education because it is a symbol of progress. Pakistain maintains that its bully boyz often find refuge in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |