Pakistan summons Afghan Charge d’Affaires over university attack
Pakistan has summoned Afghan Charge
d’Affaires, Sayed Abdul Nasir Yousafi over the deadly attack on Bacha
Khan University that Islamabad claims was controlled from Afghanistan.
“He was told that investigations have
revealed that handlers of this terrorist act were operating from Afghan
territory and used Afghan telecommunication network for planning and
executing this attack. In this regard, the relevant details have already
been shared with the Afghan side,” reads a statement released by the
Foreign Office in Islamabad on Tuesday.
“The Government of Afghanistan was urged
to take action against the perpetrators of this heinous act of
terrorism and extend cooperation to Pakistani authorities to bring them
to justice at the earliest possible.”
But Afghanistan has rejected the claim.
Presidential Palace “ARG” says government neither supports terrorist
groups nor provided sanctuaries to them.
However, the great-granddaughter of Khan
Abdul Ghaffar Khan or Bacha Khan has said that Pakistan was behind the
university attack which left at least 21 people killed and around 50
others wounded.
Yasmin Nigar Khan told the Hindustan
Times in an interview that the man known as the Frontier Gandhi is held
in such high esteem in Afghanistan that even terrorists from that
country would not attack anything named after him.
She also rejected the claim of
Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) that accepted responsibility for the
attack saying it was done by Islamabad to “vitiate the minds” of
Pakistani Pashtuns against the people of Afghanistan.
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