Nine killed as Taliban disguised in burqas attack Pakistani college

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Nine killed as Taliban disguised in burqas attack Pakistani college

By Jibran Ahmad

 

Police and rescue workers stand outside the Directorate of Agriculture Institute in Peshawar, Pakistan December 1, 2017. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

 

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban gunmen disguised in all-enveloping burqas stormed the campus of an agriculture college in Pakistan on Friday, killing at least nine people and wounding 35, police and hospital officials said.

 

Police and army troops summoned to the scene killed all of the attackers at the Agriculture Training Institute in the northwestern city of Peshawar about two hours into the attack, the military's press wing said.

 

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility, saying in a message from spokesman Mohammad Khorasani that they had targeted a safe house of the military's Inter-Services Intelligence agency.

 

The gunmen arrived at the campus in an auto-rickshaw, disguised in the burqas worn by many women in the region, Peshawar police chief Tahir Khan said.

 

They shot and wounded a guard before entering the campus, he said.

 

A wounded student, Ahteshan ul-Haq, told Reuters the university hostel usually houses nearly 400 students, but most had gone home for a long holiday weekend and only about 120 students remained.

 

"We were sleeping when we heard gunshots. I got up and within seconds everybody was running and shouting 'the Taliban have attacked'," he said.

 

Shehzad Akbar, medical director of Hayatabad Medical Complex, said six people died of their wounds and 18 were being treated. Another three people died at Khyber Teaching Hospital and 17 wounded were there, director Nekdad Afridi said.

 

In December 2014, Pakistani Taliban gunmen killed 134 children at Peshawar's Army Public School, one of the single deadliest attacks in the country's history.

 

The Pakistani Taliban are fighting to topple the government and install a strict interpretation of Islamic law. They are loosely allied with the Afghan Taliban insurgents who ruled most of Afghanistan until they were overthrown by U.S.-backed military action in 2001.

 

(Additional reporting by Asif Shahzad; Writing by Kay Johnson; Editing by Nick Macfie, Robert Birsel)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-12-01

[Cats4ever]

Funding the Taliban, to fight the Russians in Afghanistan, has turned out really well.

[eliotness]

Another reason to ban the burqa.

[meinphuket]

And here then is once again the case being made to BAN burqas from Western public society. Whoever is inside the burqa can't be ascertained, and it is spacious enough to conceal weapons and explosives. 

[Jonmarleesco]

And HR morons question countries that elect to ban face coverings.

Edited December 2, 2017 by Jonmarleesco

[MaeJoMTB]

They ran in shouting "eat me, eat me"

(Sorry misread the title, 'in burqas' became 'as burgers' in my mind)

[rosst]

On 02/12/2017 at 11:24 AM, meinphuket said:

And here then is once again the case being made to BAN burqas from Western public society. Whoever is inside the burqa can't be ascertained, and it is spacious enough to conceal weapons and explosives. 

Yes, I am in favour of banning the face covering Burqa and fail to understand how the laws in Australia make it illegal to use face masks in many situations but religious freedom is quoted successfully to permit the use of the burqa

[nausea]

A better headline would be: "Trans Terrorist Attack"; apologies to any trans people reading this.

[thaibeachlovers]

On ‎12‎/‎4‎/‎2017 at 5:09 AM, rosst said:

Yes, I am in favour of banning the face covering Burqa and fail to understand how the laws in Australia make it illegal to use face masks in many situations but religious freedom is quoted successfully to permit the use of the burqa

Absolute misuse of "religious freedom" as burqas are not religious dress. They are cultural.

This just shows how stupid western authorities are to accept the myth that there is such a thing as Islamic dress.

If burqas were an Islamic requirement, all Muslims everywhere would have to wear them, but obviously they don't.

The religious freedom claim regarding burqas is a nonsense.