Security forces and rescue officials at the Agriculture Training Institute after the attack. Photo: Reuters/File

PESHAWAR: A joint security committee has been formed for the protection of educational institutes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. 

The committee will include members of the police and provincial education department.

On the morning of December 1, terrorists attacked the student hostel inside the Directorate of Agriculture Extension on University Road in Peshawar. Nine people were martyred and around 30 injured in the incident. 

Nine martyred, 30 injured in attack on Agriculture Directorate in Peshawar

The injured include security personnel, students, a security guard, and a reporter

The security forces later managed to kill all the terrorists after a gunfight which lasted over an hour.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General Police Salahuddin Mehsud has said the committee would prepare a report on the security of educational institutes in the province. 

The report would be presented to the central police office in one week, following which a security plan would be formulated.

The students who lost their lives in Peshawar directorate attack

Eight students were killed in an attack on the student hostel inside the Directorate of Agriculture Extension on University Road, Peshawar early Friday morning

Students in the line of fire

On December 16, 2014, 147 people, including 132 schoolchildren, were massacred in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the country?s history when terrorists stormed the Army Public School in Peshawar Cantonment and opened indiscriminate fire.

Later, on January 20, 2016, 21 students and staff members of Bacha Khan University in Charsadda were martyred after terrorists stormed the university and opened fire.

Following the two attacks, the government had sanctioned the arming of teachers with weapons so as to put up a fight in case of a terrorist attack.