Militants storm Pakistan university, kill at least 20

Armed militants stormed a university in volatile northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens a little more than a year after the massacre of 134 students at a school in the area, officials said.
Many of the dead were apparently shot in the head execution-style, TV footage showed.

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 who ruled most of Afghanistan until they were overthrown by U.S.-backed military action in 2001.

Several schools had closed early at the weekend around Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, after rumors circulated of a possible attack.

That area has been on edge since the December 2014 massacre by six gunmen in Peshawar.

Pakistan, which has suffered from years of jihadist militant violence, has killed and arrested hundreds of suspected militants under a major crackdown launched afterwards.
The Peshawar school attack was seen as having hardened Pakistan's resolve to fight militants along its lawless border with Afghanistan.
Militants storm Pakistan university, kill at least 20 | Reuters

NW Tribal areas are where the TTP Taliban are concentrated

Pakistan braces for a long and deadly war in tribal areas on Afghan border
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nearly 800 Pakistani troops who have been wounded since the military launched its North Waziristan operation in June. Two hundred nineteen have been killed, adding to a toll of about 4,400 Pakistani troops who have lost their lives battling Islamist militants in northwestern Pakistan since 2002. That’s nearly twice as many troops as the United States lost in the same period in neighboring Afghanistan.

current plans call for keeping as many as 170,000 soldiers — almost one-third of the entire force — near the Afghan border through at least 2019.

Such an extended presence would allow the military to safeguard recent gains in North Waziristan, which has long served as a base for al-Qaeda, while still being able to quickly respond to emerging threats, including efforts by Islamic State militants to gain a foothold in the region

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Peshawar_school_massacre
2014 Peshawar school massacre

Murdering, backwards-thinking barbarians.

I do not yet know what to think about this because Obama and all the other great statesmen have not yet told me. I expect it will turn our that the massacre "had nothing to do with Islam". It never does. The murderers may SAY they are doing it because of their religion but our Presidents and Prime Ministers know better.