Authorities in Pakistan have ordered closure of all schools in the country’s largest province, Punjab, following an alert over possible militant attacks. The warning comes a week after a breakaway Taliban faction attacked a northwestern university and killed 21 people, mostly students.
Bacha Khan University in the northwestern town of Charsadda, reopened briefly on Monday but then closed indefinitely to give students more time to recover from the incident. The government memo says that there is intelligence that 13 Taliban fighters recently entered the country from neighboring Afghanistan and are planning suicide attacks on schools across Pakistan.