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Terrified Pakistan Parents Keep Kids Home After College Attack

Fear is gripping parents amid threats and rumors that terrorists were set to launch more attacks on Pakistan's schools and colleges.
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By Wajahat S. Khan and Mushtaq Yusufzai
Image: A private security guard watches out as students arrive at a government primary school
A private security guard watches out as students arrive at a government primary school in Peshawar on Jan. 22. Days later, provincial officials decided to shutter all educational institutions in the province.AAMIR QURESHI / AFP - Getty Images
Wajahat S. Khan

Wajahat S.Khan is a correspondent and producer for NBC News based in Islamabad, covering South Asia and also assisting the Kabul bureau. Khan is the national security correspondent for Pakistan's largest news network, Geo, and its largest English newspaper, The News. 

He was the first Pakistani Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Previously, Khan reported for CNN, and contributed alternative-media reportage to San Francisco-based Link TV. He anchored a popular investigative series on Pakistan’s local Aaj TV, and also hosted and produced for Pakistan’s first English-medium network, Dawn News. 

He is also the first broadcaster from Pakistan to produce an investigative series from across the “divide” in India. Khan has written for most of the major Pakistani publications — The News, The Dawn, The Express Tribune, The Friday Times and The Herald, and also contributes to India Today, India's most popular weekly.

Mushtaq Yusufzai

Mushtaq Yusufzai is a journalist based in Peshawar, Pakistan.