[quote]A university in the northwest of Pakistan has come under attack by armed militants, and at least seven people have been killed, with a further 20 injured, an official told CNN. It's not yet clear how many of the dead are attackers and how many are civilians but the death toll is expected to rise.
Lt. Gen. Asim Bajwa, an army spokesperson, said on Twitter that four attackers had been killed and that government troops had resumed control of all buildings and rooftops.
​There are fears that the remaining attacker or attackers are holding hostages within the campus grounds.
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I wodner why?
Might be a taliban attack
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;49569093]I wodner why?[/QUOTE]
Well they have to stop them from filling the kids heads with facts, otherwise there wont be room for cramming all their religious nuttery in there later on.
If its a bunch of islamists that is, but it seems like a given.
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;49569093]I wodner why?[/QUOTE]
Why do the Taliban attack schools, shoot at Médecins Sans Frontières volunteers, blow themselves up in crowded market places, sell their children as sex slaves to grown men, etc, etc?
They're psychopaths. What do you expect?
Trying to maintain another few centuries of dark ages, what a wonderful place.
20 dead as of now
[QUOTE=download;49569125]Why do the Taliban attack schools, shoot at Médecins Sans Frontières volunteers, blow themselves up in crowded market places, sell their children as sex slaves to grown men, etc, etc?
They're psychopaths. What do you expect?[/QUOTE]
Targets are chosen fairly deliberately. As nice and clean is it it to just write them off as being stupid or crazy, there's almost always a method to the madness of extremist organizations s, at least when it comes to organized attacks and not random attacks of opportunity from radicalized loners.
I can't specifically day what the motivations for an attack here are, beyond just taking guesses. ISIS, as one example, attacks Muslim populations at a substantially higher rate than it targets Westerners. Over 90% of their victims are other Muslims, judged as apostates. In ISIS's logic, any Muslim who has not actively sought out and joined them (called hijra, I believe-- a holy journey to abandon your old life and start anew within Allah's kingdom, or somesuch) is just as much an enemy as the "crusaders" in the West. By regular targeting Islamic institutions outside of their control, they are likely hoping to frighten more people into moving to join the Islamic State, if only to avoid their retribution.
Of course, we don't know who was responsible for this attack, and ISIS's motivations would likely differ from other extremist organizations.
I remember the other [URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30505448"]Pakistanian school attack[/URL] that ended 141 lives, and nobody gave a fuck.
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