[Pak Daily Times] A jacket wallah killed sixteen people and maimed dozens more at an election campaign rally attended by former cabinet minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
on Tuesday, officials said.
Senior Awami National Party (ANP) leader Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, who served as railways minister in the outgoing government, escaped the Peshawar bombing with cuts and bruises. He was shown on television footage with blood splattered on his trousers after the attack. "Six persons was struck down in his prime while others lost struggle for life while on their way to hospital or in hospital," a front man for the Lady Reading Hospital told media. The attack comes days after ANP leader Asfandyar Wali Khan wrote to the Election Commission of Pakistain protesting the withdrawal of security from big shots after completion of their government's constitutional term.
| Ghulam, whose brother the late ANP leader Bashir Bilour was assassinated by the Taliban last year, became an cut-thoats' favourite after posting a $100,000 ransom for the death of a film-maker behind a controversial anti-Islam movie last year. |
kaboom!," a leader of ANP leader told Daily Times. "The people were moving to receive the Bilours when the kaboom took place," he added. Police said it was a suicide kaboom. Ghulam, whose brother the late ANP leader Bashir Bilour was assassinated by the Taliban last year, became an cut-thoats' favourite after posting a $100,000 ransom for the death of a film-maker behind a controversial anti-Islam movie last year.
The Taliban quickly grabbed credit for the attack, but apologised for injuring Bilour, saying it had been targeting his nephew, Haroon. "We apologise to Ghulam Bilour because we announced an amnesty for him," Taliban front man Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP by telephone from
The Taliban has directly threatened the ANP and its outgoing coalition partners, the PPP and the MQM which are perceived as secular. Up to six kilogrammes of explosives along with splinters and ball bearings were used in the bombing, officials said. "We have found the feet of the bomber," police official Malik added. In another election-related attack, as many as four people, including the son, brother and nephew of Pakistain Moslem League-N Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
chapter President Nawab Sanaullah Zehri, were killed and 30 others injured when his convoy was attacked with a remote-controlled bomb in Zehri, on Tuesday.
Talking to this correspondent, a Levies official in Zehri said that Nawab Sanaullah Zehri was heading from Anjeera to Zehri as part of his election campaign in a convoy comprising as many as 30 to 35 vehicles. "When the motorcade reached Ghat Bulbul Tarsani, a remote-controlled bomb which was attached to an overpass went off," he said and, adding that it completely destroyed a vehicle and killed on the spot as many as four people -- the son of Sanaullah Zehri, Mir Sikandar Zehir, his nephew Mir Zaib Zehri and his younger brother Mehrullah Zehri and their gunman. Moreover, 30 people were maimed in the attack and five vehicles were damaged.