Terrorists Strike at Election Rally as Fear Sweeps Across Pakistan
Posted on February 9, 2008 - Filed Under Elections, Pakistan |
 
The Awami National Party, a Pashtun nationalist group based in Pakistan’s North West Frontier, was hosting an election rally today when a bomb exploded near the stage. There are reports of at least 15 dead, although that number is expected to climb.
The leader of the Awami National Party, Afrasiab Khattak, who was addressing the rally in the town of Charsadda in North West Frontier Province, said he was safe.
Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Hamid Nawaz, has warmed that Islamic militants have threatened to strike at all political parties prior to the February 18th election. Nawaz linked the attack to a wave of other bombings blamed on Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants that have claimed more than 70 lives this year.
“Now all Pakistanis, when they leave their home in the morning, they say goodbye,” one politically active Pakistani said, “because by evening time, Allah is the only one who knows who will return and who won’t.”
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