Pakistan’s students condemn attack on Kabul University

Pakistani students on Saturday organized a peaceful demonstration and candle-lit vigil near the National Press Club of Islamabad (NPC) to express solidarity with Afghans and protest against attacks on educational facilities including Monday’s siege at Kabul University.

Students from different universities including Quaid-e-Azam University, National University Of Modern Languages (NUML), International Islamic University, and Muslim-Youth University took part and condemned these incidents.

Dozens of students participated and members of different civil society organizations also joined in as did Afghan students studying in Pakistan.

The Afghan students thanked their Pakistani peers for their support.

This comes after Iran also came out in support of Afghanistan on Friday and projected the colors of the Afghan flag onto Tehran’s landmark Azadi tower.

In the past week, countries and world-leaders have voiced their concern over the high levels of violence in Afghanistan and condemned, in the strongest terms, the recent attacks on education facilities.

Officials have put the death toll after Monday’s attack at 22 but some sources said as many as 30 civilians, mostly students were killed.