Terror-hit Pak university to reopen on Feb 15

Eight male and two female police constables will be deployed at the university.

Islamabad

: Bacha Khan University in Charsadda where militants gunned down 22 students and teachers last month will reopen amid beefed up security from February 15.

The decision was taken in a meeting headed by BKU Vice Chancellor Fazal Raheem Marwat, an official statement said.

The meeting decided to deploy eight male and two female police constables at the university. Vehicles being used for students’ transportation will be barred until full security clearance. Police vehicles will keep patrolling the university premises to avert any untoward incident.

Militants from a breakaway Taliban group stormed the university in the Charsadda last month, setting off an hours-long gun-battle with security forces.

The attack revived memories of the December 2014 Taliban assault on a nearby army-run school in Peshawar, which killed some 150 people, nearly all of them children.

All four attackers who took part in the Charsadda assault were killed. Over the weekend, authorities announced the arrest of five others suspected of involvement.