Police say a former senator in Pakistan has been killed when a vehicle carrying him and supporters struck a roadside bomb in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border
A former senator in Pakistan was killed Wednesday when a vehicle carrying him and supporters struck a roadside bomb in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border, police said. Two other people were killed.
Two other people were wounded in the attack in Bajur, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said Bakhat Bunar, a local police chief. He said the former senator, Hidayatullah Khan, had been traveling in a convoy to attend an election rally.No one claimed responsibility for the attack, and the Pakistani Taliban in a statement said they were not involved. Bajur until recently was a stronghold of the group, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, which is allied with the Afghan Taliban.
TTP was emboldened by the Afghan Taliban seizing power in Afghanistan in 2021 as international forces withdrew. Pakistani authorities often assert that Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are giving shelter to TTP fighters. The Afghan Taliban government insists it doesn’t allow anyone to use Afghan soil for violence in any country.
Wednesday's attack came about a year after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a political rally of the Jamiat Ulema Islam party in Bajur, killing dozens and wounding 200.
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