Threat letter found at Paposh Nagar school

Karachi

With lawmakers and security establishment huddled together to carry out security measures at educational institutions following an attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, two weeks ago, a private school located in Paposh Nagar was on Monday reported to have found a letter of warning, claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), stuck to a wall.

SSP Muqadas Haider of district Central said police officers had met with the administration of the school and that investigations were underway; security of the school was also claimed to have been upgraded.

Apparently the first threat letter to have been received by a school since the attack on BKU, various educational institutions all over Pakistan were also reported to have received similar threats, while one private school, in Karachi, was attacked by a hand grenade following the tragic attack on Army Public School in Peshawar, in 2014.

The Home Department had on December 14 last year, issued a letter of warning to schools and ordered law enforcement agencies to beef up security at schools and other educational institutions in Karachi as well as the city’s bourse due to a risk of terrorist attacks as the country was to observe the first anniversary of the APS carnage on December 16, and the hanging of four militants allegedly involved in that attack.