PAKISTAN: Pakistan suicide bomber kills 10
Posted by warvictims on October 6, 2008
From Zein Basravi
CNN
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — A suicide bomber detonated at the home of a lawmaker in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 30 others, a police spokesman said.
The target of the attack, national assembly member Rashid Akbar Nawani, sustained injuries to his legs, according to a spokesman for his party. Nawani is a senior member of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N party (PML-N).
PML-N spokesman Siddiq ul Farooq put the number of dead at 20 in the blast in Punjab’s Bhakkar District. The blast occurred during an open forum between Nawani and his constituents, where people come to their provincial leaders to convey their problems, according to Farooq.
The entire province of Punjab has been placed under high alert after Monday’s attack, which is under investigation, police said.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the attack and said such heinous acts will not deter the government’s resolve to fight terrorism, according to Pakistan’s state-run news agency.
It is the second suicide strike targeting the home of a Pakistani lawmaker in less than a week. A suicide attacker detonated his explosives outside the home of the Awami National Party leader and national assembly senator Asfandyar Wali Khan on Thursday in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, according to the Interior ministry and local police.
Khan was unhurt.
Also on Sunday, rockets were fired at the home of the chief minister of North West Frontier Province, according to Pakistani media reports. No one was injured in the attack and the chief minister, Amir Haider Khan Hoti, was not at his home at the time.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/06/pakistan.suicide.strike/index.html
