>From correspondents in Peshawar, Pakistan | January
24, 2008
PAKISTANI police defused a roadside timebomb just
minutes before opposition leader Nawaz Sharif was due
to pass the spot in the north-western city of
Peshawar, officials said.
Former prime minister Sharif was travelling in a
convoy to address a lawyers' convention and a
political rally in the troubled city near the Afghan
border ahead of elections on February 18.
The discovery comes four weeks after fellow opposition
leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a gun and
suicide attack at an election meeting in the northern
city of Rawalpindi.
"We recovered a 400 gram bomb fitted with a timer
beneath a main bridge near the high court on the route
that Sharif was to take. We have defused it," bomb
disposal squad official Hukam Khan told Agence
France-Presse.
Ijaz Khan, a senior police officer, said the bomb was
found wrapped in a plastic shopping bag.
"It was planted on the road that Nawaz Sharif was to
pass. When policemen were searching the area they
found it and immediately called in bomb disposal staff
who defused it," Mr Khan said.
A spokesman for Mr Sharif said their convoy had been
halted about a kilometre before it reached the area.
"We are sitting in the car. Police have stopped our
convoy. They have said there is a report of some
explosives in the area where we were supposed to go,"
the spokesman told AFP by telephone.
Pakistani officials have said that Mr Sharif and other
politicians are targets for Islamic militants trying
to destabilise the nuclear-armed nation ahead of the
elections.
The Government has blamed a tribal warlord with
alleged links to al-Qaeda for assassinating Benazir
Bhutto on December 27.
Unrest sparked by her death caused elections to be
postponed by six weeks.
Four of Mr Sharif's supporters were killed in a gun
attack on his convoy in Rawalpindi on the same day
that Ms Bhutto was killed.
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