PESHAWAR, Pakistan — At least 22 people were killed and many more wounded when militants attacked a university campus in northwesternPakistan on Wednesday, a police official said.
A leader for the Pakistani Taliban said the group claimed responsibility for the attack, among the most brazen in a long insurgency it has waged against the authorities here that has targeted educational institutions in particular.
The site of Wednesday’s assault, Bacha Khan University in the town of Charsadda, was just 25 miles from a school in Peshawar where the Pakistani Taliban killed 145 people, most of them children, in an attack on a military-run school in 2014. Two years earlier, the group shot Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist for girls’ rights and future Nobel Peace Prize laureate.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/world/asia/bacha-khan-university-attack-charsadda.html?_r=0
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