Pakistan Political Bombings Heighten Security Fears Before Poll
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A roadside bomb targeting a regional chief of Pakistan’s main opposition party killed at least four, including the man’s son and brother, as attacks on political activists continue before the general election in May.
Sardar Sanaullah Zehri, the Baluchistan provincial president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, the party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, wasn’t hurt in yesterday’s attack in the Khuzdar district of the southwestern region, police official Kaleem Ullah said by phone. Also among the dead were Zehri’s nephew and a guard.