File photo of security personnel rescuing students during the attack on the Bacha Khan University on January 20. (Reuters file photo)
Pakistan's Bacha Khan University was reopened today, days after the varsity was attacked by terrorists killing over 20 people.
Classes would start today with special prayers for the victims. Other educational institutions in Charsadda, which was closed in the wake of the Taliban attack, also reopened today.
On Wednesday last week, four heavily-armed terrorists attacked the University named after the iconic Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in the volatile Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province which is located about 50 kilometres from Peshawar.
Authorities have arrested four facilitators who helped the attackers enter Pakistan and took them to Mardan city. They had entered Pakistan from Afghanistan via the Torkhum border.
However, the main facilitator, "terrorist A", who received and made arrangements for the attackers at Torkhum border checkpost is still at large.
Officials have said that the attack on the University was planned and controlled from Afghanistan as the phone call of commander Omer Mansoor, who later claimed responsibility, was made from Afghanistan.
The attack on the Bacha Khan University came about a year after terrorists attacked an army-run school in Peshawar that killed nearly 150 people, most of them students.
The Pakistani military intensified an ongoing offensive, named operation Zarb-e-Azb, against extremists in the tribal areas after the 2014 attack.