Deadly blast at Pakistan meeting A suicide bomber has killed at least 27 people in Pakistan after a meeting of murdered ex-PM Benazir Bhutto's party, the interior minister has said. The attack happened on the last day of campaigning ahead of general elections on Monday.
The explosion was in Parachinar, the main town of the tribal region of Kurram in north-west Pakistan. Violence and vote-rigging fears have marred campaigning for the polls, which were postponed after Ms Bhutto's death. Ms Bhutto, the head of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), was assassinated in Rawalpindi on 27 December. The authorities have insisted they are succeeding in their efforts to ensure the vote will be free and fair. 'Severe emergency' A security official said a suicide bomber in a car had carried out the attack outside the PPP office in Parachinar. Several of our party members are lying in a pool of blood Zafar Ali, PPP supporter Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz told French news agency AFP: "It was a suicide attack. There were people outside the candidate's house and they were waiting for food when this man attacked." At least 90 people were injured, he added. Most of the victims appeared to be PPP members, Mushtaq Hussain, an administrative official in the Kurram area told the Associated Press news agency. A PPP supporter, Zafar Ali, told AP: "Several of our party members are lying in a pool of blood. We are taking the injured and dumping them into pickup vans to bring them to the hospital." Security is high in the run-up to Monday's polls, with some 81,000 soldiers deployed to support police across the country. 'Conspiracy' The blast came a day after Pakistan's Attorney General Malik Qayyum rejected allegations that there would be massive rigging in the election. Human Rights Watch released an audio recording in which it says Mr Qayyum makes the comments about rigging. Mr Qayyum said the allegations were "a conspiracy against Pakistan". Mr Qayyum is a close ally of President Pervez Musharraf. The president will not be standing in the parliamentary vote on 18 February. But the former military leader could face a serious challenge to his authority if the vote produces a hostile parliament packed with his opponents. The PPP says it will consider street protests if it suspects electoral fraud. Mr Musharraf has however warned against any such action. He stepped down as army chief late last year and this election is seen as another key step in Pakistan's transition from military to civilian rule. In a separate incident on Saturday in the south-western town of Quetta, police fired tear gas and used batons to disperse a rally of about 1,000 people from opposition parties boycotting next week's elections, police and witnesses told AFP. Are you in the area? If you have any information you would like to share with the BBC you can do so using the form below: You can send pictures and video to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or text them to +44 7725 100 100 . If you have a large file you can upload here. Click here to see terms and conditions At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws. Name: Email address: Town and Country: Phone number (optional): Comments: Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/7248445.stm Published: 2008/02/16 14:39:25 GMT © BBC MMVIII --------------- Jusfiq Hadjar gelar Sutan Maradjo Lelo Allah yang disembah orang Islam tipikal dan yang digambarkan oleh al-Mushaf itu dungu, buas, kejam, keji, ganas, zalim lagi biadab hanyalah Allah fiktif. __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
