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Bomb attack kills 12 at Pakistan market: Officials

PESHAWAR: A car bomb attack killed 12 people and wounded dozens more in a Pakistan market on Monday in the northwestern town of Jamrud close to the Afghan border, officials said.
The bomb exploded in a small market near a bus stop, where passengers wait for buses to take them across the northwest and to other parts of the country.
“Twelve people were killed and more than 50 wounded in the blast. The blast also damaged 10 vehicles and more than 15 shops in the market,” local administration official Jehangir Azam told AFP.
His colleague Attarur Rehman Orakzai gave the same death toll but said 57 were wounded.
Officials had earlier said nine people were killed.
“According to my initial information, there was an explosive-laden van, which caused the explosion. We are trying to ascertain whether it hit a target or just blew up,” Khyber’s most senior administration official, Mutahir Zeb, told AFP.
Two intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the explosives had been packed into a Suzuki Alto vehicle.

Election campaign: ‘Main contest between leaders of Lahore and PPP’

MULTAN:  The general elections will be a fight between supporters and opponents of new provinces in Pakistan, former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Saturday. He was addressing a public gathering in PP-202. More than 30,000 people attended the rally.

Gilani said the main competition in the elections would be between the “leaders of Lahore” and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) .
He said the PPP aimed at creating a Seraiki province. He said by creating this province, his party would take revenge from those who were against it.
He said that the leaders in Lahore were unaware of the grievances of the people in their region.
“How can they then identify and resolve issues in other areas?”
He said the PPP leadership felt the pain of the people of the region.
“I need the people of this region to realise this reality and support us to save themselves from punishment and revenge,” he said.
To a question, Gilani said that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) did not have a manifesto.
He said, “PTI cannot compete with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz or any other party.”