{"id":53709,"date":"2017-12-01T05:54:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T05:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=53709"},"modified":"2017-12-01T05:54:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T05:54:39","slug":"taliban-disguised-burqas-attack-agriculture-college-nw-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/taliban-disguised-burqas-attack-agriculture-college-nw-pakistan.html","title":{"rendered":"Taliban, disguised in burqas, attack agriculture college in NW Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Taliban, disguised in burqas, attack agriculture college in NW Pakistan<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Taliban, disguised in burqas, attack agriculture college in NW Pakistan:- Pakistani Taliban gunmen, using the disguise of all-enveloping burquas, stormed the campus of an agriculture university in Pakistan on Friday, wounding at least five people, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The attackers were exchanging fire with security forces at the Directorate of Agriculture Institute of Peshawar, said Tahir Khan, chief of police in the northwestern city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cPolice and army commandos have cordoned off the campus,\u201d Khan said. \u201cA blast was also just heard from the campus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">He said five wounded people had been taken to hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Pakistani Taliban quickly claimed the attack, saying in message from spokesman Mohammad Khorasani that they had targeted a safe house of the military Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The gunmen arrived at the school\u2019s campus in a rickshaw and disguised in the burqas worn by many women in the region, Khan said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">They shot and wounded a guard before entering the campus, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">In December 2014, Pakistani Taliban gunmen killed 134 children at Peshawar\u2019s Army Public School, one of the single deadliest attacks in the country\u2019s history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Pakistani Taliban are fighting to topple the government and install a strict interpretation of Islamic law. 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