![]() Instead of seriously reflecting on their inability to protect citizens, the focus is on blaming external influences and continuing to celebrate the resilience of Pakistan against such threats. Just as predictable was the Pakistani government and armed forces’ response to the January 20 th events, which consisted of calling high-level meetings to brief top military and political leaders and declaring a renewed war on terrorism. This threat of further violence was typical of militant tactics in the country. ![]() “We will attack every educational institution that produces lawyers and judges who then run a parallel legal system,” he said, before warning of similar attacks against the institutions that produce soldiers to fight against the Taliban. It seems the country’s authorities have learned little about the failings of their counterterrorism strategy in the intervening period.Īfter the Bacha Khan attacks, Taliban commander Khalifa Omar Mansoor threatened to “kill the future generation of Pakistan in their nurseries,” in a video message. The violence was reminiscent of a school massacre in Peshawar in December 2014, which killed 132 students. A January 20 th Taliban assault on Bacha Khan University left 21 people dead and another 21 critically injured. Pakistan is again recovering from a militant attack on an educational institution in its northwest region.
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