Pakistan urges Afghan govt to take action against Charsadda attackers

ISLAMABAD, January 26: The Afghan government was urged to take action against the perpetrators of the act of terrorism and to extend cooperation to Pakistani authorities to bring them to justice.
“He [the Afghan Charge d’Affaires] was told investigations have revealed that handlers of the terrorist act were operating from Afghan territory and used Afghan telecommunication network for planning and executing this attack,” said a statement issued by the Foreign Office on Tuesday.
The Afghan government was urged to take action against the perpetrators of the act of terrorism, and to extend cooperation to Pakistani authorities to bring them to justice, the statement added.
At least 22 people were killed as terrorists armed with ammunition and bombs targeted Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) on January 20.
Pakistan Army has said that the attack was controlled by Taliban commanders in Afghanistan. However, Afghan authorities have reportedly rejected the Pakistani statements.
A day after the attack, army Chief General Raheel Sharif spoke to the Afghan president, the Afghan chief executive and the commander of the foreign forces and told them that Pakistani Taliban commander controlled the attack.
The spokesman said that investigations have revealed that the handlers of the terrorists were giving directions from Afghanistan. The FO also demanded the Afghan government to cooperate with Pakistan to bring the terrorists involved in the attack to the book.
The spokesman further informed that investigations about the attack have been shared with Afghanistan.
A dreaded Taliban leader Omar Mansoor had claimed responsibility for the attack in a video message. The four attackers also appeared in the video.
Mansoor was also behind the terrorist attack on the Army Public School in December 2014 that had killed 150 people, nearly all students.-Sabah