20 killed in Pakistan university attack

Armed militants stormed a university in volatile northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens a little more than a year after the massacre of 134 students at a school in the area, officials said.

A senior Pakistani Taliban commander claimed responsibility for the assault in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, but an official spokesman later denied involvement, calling the attack “un-Islamic”.

The violence nevertheless shows that militants retain the ability to launch attacks, despite a countrywide anti-terrorism crackdown and a military campaign against their strongholds along the lawless border with Afghanistan.