Pakistan Attack Mastermind Umar Mansoor Threatens More Attacks

Bacha Khan university mastermind has released a video threatening more assaults on educational institutes.

Family members of students stand outside the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda town, some 35 kilometers outside the city of Peshawar, Pakistan. (Photo: AP)

Taliban leader Umar Mansoor, the mastermind of the deadly attack on Pakistan’s Bacha Khan University threatened, on Friday, to carry out more attacks.

In a video message, Mansoor said more educational institutions, which he said were “nurseries that produced apostates” will be targeted.

Mansoor condemned the prevailing educational system and alleged that these institutes were a foundation of the political, judicial, defence and democratic institutions.

<p>We have started the process of attacking educational institutions.<br></p>

<b>Umar Mansoor, TTP Commander</b>

Screenshot of the video released on Facebook. (Photo courtesy: Facebook page)

The video, which is in Pushto with Urdu sub-titles, shows Mansoor along with a group of armed men. 

<p>Pakistan’s entire system is that of infidels. We will change it. We will continue to attack schools, colleges and universities across Pakistan as these are the foundations that produce apostates. We will target and demolish these foundations. <br></p>

<b>Umar Mansoor, TTP Commander</b>

Coffin of a victim of the attack on Bacha Khan University, Pakistan on 20 January 2016. (Photo: AP)

Attack on Bacha Khan University, Pakistan

The attack claimed 21 lives, both students and staff, while four attackers were gunned by the security forces.

Although Mansoor claimed responsibility for the attack, spokesperson of the Pakistan Taliban Muhammad Khorasani has denied responsibility and condemned the attack.

Also read: TTP Spokesperson Denies Mansoor’s Claim of Bacha University Attack

(With inputs from PTI.)