Pakistani police officers and volunteers gather at the wreckage of a bus destroyed in a bomb blast in Quetta on June 15, 2013. <\/p>\n
Pakistan’s education authorities have shut down a women’s university at the center of recent deadly twin attacks in the troubled southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta.\n<\/p>\n
The education authorities said in a statement on Monday that Sardar Bahadur Khan University would remain closed for an indefinite period, Pakistan’s Geo TV network reported.\n<\/p>\n
The university is the only all-female university in the volatile southwestern Balochistan Province.\n<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Balochistan Bar Council has also announced boycott of court proceedings across the region over the unprecedented tragedy.\n<\/p>\n
The developments came after heavily armed militants bombed a bus carrying female university students in Quetta, the capital of the Balochistan Province, on Saturday afternoon, leaving 14 students dead and 19 others wounded.\n<\/p>\n
About 90 minutes later, the militants attacked the hospital in the city treating survivors from the bus bombing, killing 11 more citizens and injuring 17 people.\n<\/p>\n
Nurses, hospital security personnel and a senior city official were among those killed in the standoff between the attackers and security forces at Quetta\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Bolan Medical Complex.\n<\/p>\n
The outlawed Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for Saturday\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s massacre in Quetta.\n<\/p>\n
In January at least 81 people, mainly Shia Muslims, were killed in a bomb attack in the lawless city.\n<\/p>\n
Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001, when Pakistan entered an alliance with the US in the so-called war on terror.\n<\/p>\n
Thousands more have been displaced by the wave of violence and militancy sweeping across the country.\n<\/p>\n
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