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political party’s rally in northwest Pakistain on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including a candidate in July 25 elections, police said.
The attack on a meeting of the Awami National Party
founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism....
(ANP) in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 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.also injured nearly 50 others, city police chief Jamil Qazi said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the first major pre-election violence. Live TV footage showed volunteers and police rushing the maimed to hospital.
The ANP was the main target of Taliban attacks in the 2013 election. Then, senior ANP leader Bashir Bilour was killed in a suicide kaboom. Tuesday’s attack killed his son Haroon Bilour, a candidate for the provincial assembly.
Peshawar city sits on the edge of a region bordering Afghanistan that has long been home to Islamist murderous Moslems.
The Pak Taliban, a loosely aligned umbrella group of several murderous Moslem and sectarian bands, have been waging a war against the Pak state for over a decade, killing tens of thousands of people.
They want nuclear-armed Pakistain to be a state run under their harsh interpretation of Islamic law.
The violence has decreased in recent months after several military offensives against their strongholds in the region. But many Death Eaters have escaped to neighboring Afghanistan, from where Islamabad alleges they launch attacks inside Pakistain.
Last month, a US dronezap killed the Pak Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah
...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan...
, who had grabbed credit for most of the attacks against the ANP in the 2013 election on the grounds that it had supported military operations against the murderous Moslems.
The army announced on Tuesday it would deploy over 371,000 troops to ensure peaceful and fair and free elections on July 25.