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Death toll in Pakistan university attack rises to 21

– Security ‘beefed up’ –

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which had echoes of a Taliban assault on an army-run school in Peshawar in December 2014 that killed more than 150 people, most of them children.

“There are male and female staff members and students on the campus,” university vice chancellor Fazal Raheem Marwat said, adding he had been on his way to work when he was informed of the attack.

“There was no announced threat but we had already beefed up security at the university.”

Naik Mohammed, security chief at the university, said the attackers had entered close to a campus guest house.

The 2014 Taliban assault on the Peshawar school was Pakistan’s deadliest ever attack, and prompted a crackdown on extremism in Pakistan.

After a public outcry, the military launched an offensive against extremists in the tribal areas where they had previously operated with impunity.

Pakistan’s Jinnah Institute said in a report released Tuesday that the National Action Plan (NAP) helped curb extremist violence last year, although targeted attacks against religious minorities spiked in the Muslim nation of some 200 million people.

“The NAP has allowed improvements in two areas: the first actual implementation of prosecution against hate speech, and the arrest of terrorists from sectarian organisations which feed religious violence,” said one of the authors, Syed Hassan Akbar.

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On Tuesday, a suicide attack at a market on the city’s outskirts killed 10 people, in addition to the bomber.

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