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| Pak-taliban attacks Jamaat-e-Islam and other Islamist party |
| 2013-05-08 |
| Three bombings in northwest Pakistan targeting individuals involved in this week's national elections killed 18 people on Tuesday, police said, pushing the death toll from attacks on candidates and party workers to over 100 since the beginning of April. Two of the attacks targeted candidates from Islamist parties, indicating a new trend in the pre-election violence, which had only plagued secular parties before this week. Taliban consider secular govt harem and thus even hard line Islamists who want to kill apostates, blasphemers, insulters of Mohammud, dishonorers of family, etc., must be destroyed if they participate in an election In the deadliest of the three attacks Tuesday, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives near a vehicle carrying a candidate from a hard-line Islamist party, killing 12 people and wounding 35, police officer Haleem Khan said. It was the second attack on the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Council of Islamic Clergy party in as many days. |
| Posted by:lord garth |