Reuters: Militants kill at least 19 as they storm Pakistan university
Armed militants stormed a university in volatile northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens a little more than a year after the massacre of 134 students at a school in the area, officials said.
A senior Pakistani Taliban commander claimed responsibility for the assault in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province but an official spokesman later denied involvement, calling the attack "un-Islamic".
The violence nevertheless shows that militants retain the ability to launch attacks, despite a country-wide anti-terrorism crackdown and a military campaign against their strongholds along the lawless border with Afghanistan.
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More News On Today's Militant Attack In Pakistan
Gunmen Attack University in Pakistan: Live -- New York Times
Attack at Bacha Khan University in Pakistan Leaves at Least 22 Dead -- New York Times
Militants kill at least 19 as they storm Pakistan university -- Reuters
Pakistan attacks: at least 30 dead in terror raid at Bacha Khan University -- The Guardian
Pakistan Charsadda: Deadly assault on university -- BBC
Gunmen storm university in Pakistan, killing at least 20 people -- Washington Post
At least 19 killed in attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, Pakistan -- CNN
At least 21 dead in Taliban attack on Pakistan university -- USA Today
Pakistan army says deadly university attack over -- Al Jazeera
More than 20 killed, scores injured as gunmen attack Bacha Khan University in northwest Pakistan -- RT
4 comments:
Must have been the moderate Taliblam that we want to negotiate with.
It's the Pakistani Taliban, a different group than the Afghan Taliban.
English Nazis are different from Americans Nazis who are different form German Nazis
Okay whatever that means.
And the German Bund would never ever have been a threat.
"Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP; Urdu: تحریک طالبان پاکستان; "Taliban Movement of Pakistan"), alternatively referred to as the Pakistani Taliban, is an umbrella organization of various Islamist militant groups based in the northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the Afghan border in Pakistan. Most, but not all, Pakistani Taliban groups coalesce under the TTP.[6] In December 2007 about 13 groups united under the leadership of Baitullah Mehsud to form the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.[7][8] Among the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan's stated objectives are resistance against the Pakistani state, enforcement of their interpretation of sharia and a plan to unite against NATO-led forces in Afghanistan."
Subtle differences matter.
The Pakistani Taliban are targetting the Pakistani State, the sponsors of the Afghan Taliban, and while the Afghan Taliban "tolerate" the presence of Pakistani Taliban fugitive s and camps in Kunar and Nuristan Provinces, it's dominantly because the Afghan Taliban can do nothing about it, as the Pakistani Taliban are protected by the Haqquani network, the TNSM and al Quida.
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