CHARSADDA: Bacha Khan University (BKU) in Charsadda, which was closed in the aftermath of a militant attack on Jan 20 which killed at least 21 students, reopened on Monday after it was given security clearance...
Vice-chancellor Fazal Rahim Marwat received students as they entered the campus amid tight security
PESHAWAR: Unidentified gunmen entered Bacha Khan University in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Charsadda town Wednesday and opened fire on students and faculty members as they gathered at the school for a poetry recital to commemorate the death anniversary of the activist and leader whom the school is named after...
The mastermind of the APS Peshawar attack, Umar Mansoor, of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Geedar group has claimed the...
CHARSADDA: A chemistry teacher who tried to protect his students by opening fire on Taliban militants during a deadly attack at the Bacha Khan University has been hailed as a “martyr” and a “gentleman”...
Lecturer Syed Hamid Hussain, an assistant professor of chemistry at the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, ordered his students to stay inside as Taliban gunmen stormed the school near the city of Peshawar on Wednesday, leaving at...
PESHAWAR: Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Asim Bajwa on Wednesday said major breakthroughs had been made in identifying the terrorists who attacked the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda earlier in the day...
The ISPR chief said the terrorists' phone calls had been traced and analysed, and that two cell phones had also been recovered from them
LAHORE: A cross section of society including the political parties hit out at Charsadda’s Bacha Khan University attack and expressed solidarity with the families of the fallen students and university employees on Wednesday...
The ruling party was appalled at the tragedy and the Punjab government announced one-day mourning to show solidarity with the grieved
PESHAWAR: A First Information Report (FIR) was registered on Thursday against the four unidentified militants who attacked Charsadda's Bacha Khan University, killing 20 people and injuring at least a dozen others...
Read: New year unleashes fresh wave of violenceAn injured university employee, Muhammad Fayyaz, expired this morning in the Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit at Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital ? where two others wounded in...
CHARSADDA: Stuck with 15 of his students on a third floor balcony of a campus building as gunmen came up the stairs, university director Mohammad Shakil urged police personnel arriving at the scene to toss him a gun so he could fight back...
“We were hiding
ISLAMABAD: The residents of Islamabad gathered outside the National Press Club on Thursday to protest against the attack on Bacha Khan University, Charsadda...
Nageen Hayat of the Women’s Action Forum said she had been protesting against the security policies in the country for the last 30 years, but to no avail
WELLINGTON: The Pakistani cricket team on Friday observed a minute of silence in respect for the lives lost during Wednesday's Bacha Khan University attack before taking to the field against New Zealand in the third T20 match against the Kiwis...
Television footage also showed the cricketers sporting black armbands as a symbol of mourning
PESHAWAR: The Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, where militants killed 21 students and teachers last week, reopened briefly on Monday as the administration held a session to review the security situation before resumption of academic activities...
During the session, presided over by the varsity's vice chancellor, it was decided that academic activities on campus will not commence until provision of adequate security
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, after holding an official inquiry into the Jan 20 terrorist attack on Bacha Khan University, has ordered to remove the university security chief from service as well as include him in the investigation...
The vice-chancellor of the university has been spared with only a warning ‘to be more diligent in future’
Charsadda's Bacha Khan University administration sent out a notification earlier this month banning male students or employees from "idle sitting" or roaming with female students, a move which stirred a controversy on social media after the notification became public on Monday...
The notification, issued by the university's Chief Proctor Muhammad Shakeel, also imposed a ban on smoking, the use of chaadar, using the rooftops of campus...
MINGORA: The girl students of a local school here on Sunday urged people to provide opportunities of education to their daughters if they wanted to live in a developed and civilised society...
They were speaking at a cultural fair organised at Bacha Khan High School
ON Jan 31, 1948, Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, for ‘appeasing’ Muslims and for the suffering of Partition...
Much has been written about Gandhi’s life and death, but what of the Gandhi in our midst?I have an image of the gentle, towering figure of Bacha Khan assisting a frail Gandhi cross a very narrow and precarious bridge in Jehanabad, Bihar, in March 1947, as the two friends...
PESHAWAR: Haroon Bacha, a noted Pashto folksinger has recently launched his Pashto ghazal album titled ‘Gulrang’, the fiftieth in the run in his 25-year music career...
Hailing from Swabi, Panjpir village, he did his graduation from Edwardes College, Peshawar, and later received master’s degree in social work from the University of Peshawar in 1994