... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province that left at least 21 people killed and more than 30 others maimed.
Pakistain's The Express Tribune news agency reports that the massacre at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda has once again sowed the idea of arming teachers at schools and the K-P administration has decided to issue free weapons' licenses for government educational institutes' employees.
According to the news agency, on Saturday, the provincial home ministry confirmed free licenses would be issued after an official shows the necessary authority letter. Private entities would also get licenses but they would have to pay a fee
Pakistain issued guns to teachers following a deadly attack on an army-run school in 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.
that resulted in the death of 144 people and left over 100 others maimed. Most of the victims were school children.
Mullah Fazlullah
...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan...
, leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) later claimed in a video that the attack was carried out by his group and that he will carry out more attacks of this type.
The attack on Bacha Khan University came about 13 months after his threat and commander of a splinter group of TTP grabbed credit for it.
However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
the group's central spokesperson Mohammad Khurasani rejected TTP's involvement in it.