KARAK: The pre-election violence continued on Monday with several more attacks on election candidates.
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Two candidates came under attack in Karak District on Monday in two separate incidents during their election campaigns, but no lose of life was reported in the two incidents. Police sources said that in the first incident two unidentified motorcyclists attacked the convoy of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Sami) candidate for NA-15 Karak and Central Deputy General Secretary of the party Maulana Shah Abdul Aziz in Jangrezi area of Tehsil Banda Daud Shah.
He narrowly escaped the assassination attempt and all other workers and supporters of the candidate also remained unhurt. Hafiz Faisal Tariq, a close aid of the candidate, claimed that Maulana Shah Abdul Aziz was going to a public meeting regarding his election campaign. He had not registered an FIR of the incident until the filing of this report.
On the same day in the morning two men fired shots on the hujra (guesthouse) of former Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl MPA and now an independent candidate for PK-41 Karak-I Malik Qasim Khan in Khojaki area of Tehsil Takht-e-Nusrati on the Indus Highway.
The power transformer of the guesthouse caught fire and the building was also slightly damaged but no loss of life was reported in the incident. Malik Shamsur Rehman, a relative of Malik Qasim registered the FIR of the incident in Takht-e-Nusrati police station against two brothers identified as Saleem Ayaz and Sajjad Khan.
Meanwhile, a man killed one and wounded another as another office of the Awami National Party came under attack in Noshehra on Monday, officials said. According to local police, unidentified people attacked the election office of ANP candidate Shahid Khatak. The assailants managed to flee after committing the crime, police added.
An explosion near the election office of Awami National Party (ANP) in Charsadda injured 12 people on Monday. According to local police, unidentified people attacked the election office of ANP candidate Muhammad Ahmad Khan in the constituency PK-17 of Charsadda. It is pertinent to mention here that ANP, along with PPP and MQM has been targeted by terror outfits and hundreds of party workers and leaders have lost their lives during recent days in Karachi, other parts of Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In attacks on Sunday at least 11 people were killed across the country, as terrorists continued to target political parties in a bid to disrupt the upcoming general election.
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