Around eleven blasts were reported outside various polling stations in the country –mostly in Balochistan - on Monday despite strict security measures on the occasion of the general elections. Reports of rocket firing were also received in Khuzdar, Kohlu and Naseerabad, Online reported.In Kohlu, a rocket landed near a polling station, but no loss of life was reported. Also, the Frontier Corps arrested two suspected people at Saryab Road during the polling for their alleged involvement in bomb blasts.
A bomb blast was heard in QuettaÂ’s Nauroz Sports Complex area where several polling stations were located, while a small bomb exploded near a polling station on the cityÂ’s outskirts, police and witnesses told AFP. Elsewhere in Balochistan, two small bombs exploded separately near un-crowded polling stations, but there were no casualties, police said. Also, militants blew up two pipelines supplying natural gas to a main plant in the town of Sui, officials said. Baloch Republican Army purported spokesman Sarbaz Baloch accepted responsibility for those attacks.
Bajaur: In Bajaur, a bomb blast ripped through a wall of a polling station while around 300 people queued to cast their votes, officials and witnesses said. No one was injured and polling resumed shortly afterwards, government official Muwaz Afridi said. “We are not afraid of death, because Allah has fixed the time of death and there is no escape from it, so we have come here to fulfil a national duty,” 50-year-old voter Naemat Khan said.
In Malakand, a blast partially damaged the walls of a school building where polling was being done, APP reported. A rocket-propelled grenade hit a polling station in a remote part of Sindh, a police official said.
The elections were postponed in NA-37 Parachinar after the violence erupted in the area when a suicide bomber killed around 47 people and injured 150 others.