Wazoo tribal agency on Saturday, adding to security fears ahead of historic national polls next month.No one was hurt in the bombing in Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
, the main town in North Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan. But the bombing is likely to fuel concerns that violence will mar the national and regional elections on May 11, which will mark the country's first democratic transition of power after a civilian government has served a full term in office.
Violence is the sauce on Pakistain's political spaghetti.
"Militants blew up the election office of Kamran Khan with explosives at around 5:00 am," an intelligence official in Miranshah told AFP, adding that all three rooms of the office were destroyed.
Residents in Miranshah confirmed the bombing
"Ay-yup. Blowed right up. I seen it."
and told AFP that an adjacent mosque was also damaged in the blast.
Not surprising, when every other building in town is a mosque.
Khan is a former politician from North Waziristan who supported the outgoing government led by the Pakistain People's Party (PPP), the official said
