Daily Times

The Balochistan government has decided to establish a special force to be deployed at university campuses across the province in the aftermath of the brutal attack on the Bacha Khan University in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Charsadda town last week.

“The new force would be subservient to vice chancellors,” Provincial Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani said, adding that administrative powers over the force would be with police. Durrani said 60 personnel would be deployed at each university, adding that the force will be well equipped.

The decision comes in the aftermath of a terrorist attack at the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda – which claimed more than 20 lives – when unidentified gunmen 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.

Following the attack on the Charsadda varsity last week, security arrangements at universities and colleges have been upgraded all across the country. The Punjab government also issued orders for foolproof security arrangements in public, private, missionary, armed forces, multinational schools, colleges and universities.