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Suicide bomber kills twenty eight in Pakistan town

Calcutta News.Net
Saturday 28th April, 2007 (IANS)

A suicide bomber killed at least 28 people and injured many including Pakistan's Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao at a rally in the North West Frontier Province, police said.

The blast occurred at a meeting in Charsadda town, 135 km from Karachi, immediately after Sherpao concluded his speech. He was taken to hospital in nearby Peshawar with minor injuries, said Mohammed Khan, an official.

Initial reports from the meeting had said both Sherpao and his son Sikander Sherpao, a member of the provincial assembly, had been critically wounded.

Bacha Gul Wazir, the province's home secretary, said he had seen blood on the minister's face but he did not know if the minister was himself bleeding.

The province lies on Pakistan's troubled border with Afghanistan.

Sherpao, 63, who heads the Pakistan People's Party (Sherpao Group), is a key figure in the efforts to fight terrorism and religious extremism, particularly in the NWFP and Balochistan.

The province's Inspector General of Police Mohammed Sharif Virk confirmed the 15 deaths in the Charsaddah rally. The figure has gone up subsequently with more information coming in.

Jahanzeb Khan, political secretary of Sikandar Sherpao, succumbed to his injuries.

The bomber was suspected to be an Afghan national whose identify could not be established.

Virk said the attacker could be an Afghani, as an Afghani's head was found on the spot of incident.

Militancy-related violence involving foreign Islamist mercenaries is a frequent occurrence in Pakistan. There have been suicide attacks at the Islamabad International Airport in January.

Saturday witnessed a fire, suspected to be an act of militants, at the Peshawar Airport, delaying international flights.

There have been at least three known attempts on the life of President Pervez Musharraf. He narrowly escaped injury in two bombings that claimed 17 lives in Rawalpindi in December 2003.

In July 2004, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz survived a suicide bombing as he was campaigning for a by-election west of this capital. Eight people were killed in the incident.

 

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Anonymous
04-29-07, 08:58 AM

Suicide bomber kills twenty eight in Pakistan town

G O M U S H A R A F & M I L I T A R Y G O .......T O T H E H E L L I F Y O U C A N`T G O B A C K T O Y O U R B A R R A C K S !!!!!

Stop the Pakistani Military bombardment on the civilians in Balochistan.
Stop the continuing kidnaping of Balochs and Sindhis in Pakistan.
Stop the severe torcher of Baloch & Sindhi political prisoners in prisons.
Stop the Pakistani Military infilteration in Afghanistan in the name of Talibans.
Stop the Pakistani Jehadis infilteration in India and in Iraq.
Release 8000 Balochs were kidnaped by Pakistani Military.
Release Akhter Jan Mengal, the great Baloch Leader.

Stop to make crisis in Pakistan, in Afghanistan by Pakistani Military with their
aim to ........prolong their power in Pakistan.
Qamaryousafzai
04-29-07, 04:41 PM

Details of the news Updated...qamaryousafzai@yahoo.com

Russia made explosives, jacket used in Charsadda attack: Investigators
CHARSADDA: Investigators on Sunday started probe of a suicide attack in rally of Pakistan Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao in Charsadda.
The investigation team visited the place of the incident on Sunday to collect evidences from the place.
FIA’s Special Group of Investigation has hinted that Saturday’s suicide attack bear a resemblance to previous attacks in Islamabad, Peshawar, Tank and Dera Ismail Khan.
The investigators said that ball bearings were used in the device and Russian made explosives and jacket were used in the attack.
The investigation team, comprises of four officials, had also held probe in Islamabad, Peshawar, Tank and Dera Ismail Khan bombings
Names of Charsadda blast’s victims
CHARSADDA: The death toll from a suicide bombing in Charsadda rose to 28 on Sunday as investigators attempted to identify the bomber who tried to kill the interior minister.
The names of some of the deceased are: Fazal Maula s/o Nadir Khan, Jahzeb, Private secretary Ahtisham s/o Fazal Maula, Isral s/o Syed Rehman, Zeeshan s/o Momin Khan, Raeess Allah s/o Roh Allah, Khayal Mohammad, Haji Sayyar Gul s/o Haji Mohammad Gul, Malaik Sardar Ali, s/o Ameer Mohammad, Nadir s/o Fakir Mohammad, Saleem Khan, Syed Rehman, Tehseen Allah s/o Habib Allah, Fazal Malik s/o Shamzor Khan, Tariq s/o Nazar Mohammad, Khalid Khan s/o Burhan Uddin, Mehboob s/o Shams Ali, Head constable Abdul Wakil s/o Munawwar Khan, constable Sajjad Shah from police station Tarnab, Saeed Allah s/o Fazal Subhan, Sherzaman s/o Ghulam Ghaus, Hasnat Ali s/o Nawab Ali, Noor Ali s/o Haji Abdul Ghaffar, Younis, Tauheed s/o Imdad Allah, Haji Kasim s/o Sawaal Fakir, Rashid Khan and Jafar Khan s/o Shamzoor Khan.
Terrorists will be hunted down until end: Musharraf
President General Pervez Musharraf has said that the war against terrorism would continue and the terrorists would be hounded until end.
President General Pervez Musharraf, presently on a visit abroad, while talking on phone to the Federal Interior Minister, Aftab Sherpao, told this.
The president enquired about the health of the interior minister and advised that all the necessary medical facilities should be provided to those injured in the Charsadda suicide bombing.
President General Pervez Musharraf told that Pakistan was playing a key-role in the war against terrorism and such dastardly acts of terrorists would not make any dent in our morale. He said that the policy of underway operation against the terrorists would not be changed in any way. The war against terrorists would continue until their total extermination and they would be hunted down until end for giving them a defeat, he said.
Federal interior minister on this occasion apprised of the president about the headways made by the Joint Investigation Team and especially, the Investigation Cell of FIA.

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