What Cease-Fire? Suicide Blast Kills 20 At Pakistan Rally
Maybe the new cease-fire only applies to military targets…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A suicide bomber struck at an election rally in northwestern Pakistan Saturday, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 25, police and civilian officials said.
The blast occurred at a rally of the Awami National Party—a secular, ethnic Pashtun group—in the town of Charsadda in the turbulent North West Frontier province, where Islamic extremists operate.
Area police chief Mohammed Khan said 18 people died. Local television stations quoted party officials as saying 20 were killed.
Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said the attack was believed carried out by a suicide bomber who detonated his explosives “very close to the stage” where party officials were assembled.
Afrasiab Khattak, the party’s provincial leader and a prominent human rights champion, was addressing the rally but told Dawn television that he was not hurt.
Nawaz said Islamic militants were threatening all the political parties in the northwest ahead of the Feb. 18 parliamentary elections.
“They are against everyone,” he told Dawn News TV.
Charsadda has witnessed several attacks in recent years. More than 50 people died in the town in December when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb amid hundreds of holiday worshippers at a mosque at the residence of former interior minister Aftab Khan Sherpao.
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The only one ceasing fire was the Paki troops side it looks like. People need to stop believing anything that comes out of these scumbags mouths. The Pakis just need to stop F*ing around and go in there with overwhelming force.
February 9th, 2008 at 7:44 amDon’t negotiate; kill them all.
February 9th, 2008 at 6:40 pm