Bacha Khan varsity was warned of terror threat: Police

The Pakistani university which was attacked by Taliban militants last week had been asked to enhance security a day before the assault but its management turned a deaf ear to the advice, police said today.
On Wednesday, four heavily-armed terrorists attacked Bacha Khan University (BKU) named after the iconic Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in the volatile Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province which is located about 50 kilometres from here, killing 21 people, mostly students.
District Police Officer (DPO) Sohail Khalid Khan told told the elected District Assembly Charsadda that he had informed the administration of BKU to enhance security measures.
He said that a team of police headed by DSP Raza Muhammad had visited BKU a day before the incident and had expressed dissatisfaction over security arrangements and brought the same in the notice of varsity's administration.

The DPO was responding to queries made by the district members in the district councils meeting.
Moreover, the administration was also informed that anything terrible could happen in the varsity but the university's administration turned a deaf ear to their notice.
Khan said that the security cordon at Tehsil level was being reviewed and would be updated wherever there was any shortcoming. He said the soil of Afghanistan was used in attacks in Pakistan.
An emergency meeting of the District Council Charsadda was convened to deliberate upon the BKU tragedy and security environment developed in the district. The district members said that despite security alerts only four security guards were on duty out of a total of 55.