CHARSADDA/NOWSHERA/KARAK/MARDAN - Militants continued targeting election offices and campaigns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday and killed at least two people and wounded over a dozen in attacks in different parts of the province.
Follow up:
One person was killed and 12 wounded in an explosion outside the election office of Awami National Party (ANP) candidate for PK-18, Muhammad Ahmad Khan, in Charsadda. In Nowshera district, two gunmen attacked a campaign office of ANP candidate for PK13, Shahid Khattak, killing a party worker and injuring three others.
In Mardan, explosives planted at the main gate of the Hujra of ANP local leader Haji Khan Daraz in Ghando village went off early in the morning damaging the residence and a nearby mosque. However, no loss of human life was reported. In Karak district, Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) candidate for NA-15, Shah Abdul Aziz, narrowly escaped an assignation attempt in tehsil Banda Daud Shah.
In the same district on the same day in the morning, two attackers opened fire at the guesthouse of former JUI-F ex-MPA Malik Qasim Khan, who is now contesting running for PK-41 as an independent candidate, in Khojaki area of tehsil Takht-e-Nusrati on the Indus Highway. However no loss of life was reported in the incident.
Police said that a man was killed and around 12 others injured in Charsadda’s Sardehri area blast that targeted an election office of ANP candidate for PK-18, Muhammad Ahmed Khan. The injured were shifted to Peshawar District Headquarters Hospital and two critically injured were taken to Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital.
“The explosion took place near my car,” Ahmad Khan said. Three other cars were also damaged in the explosion in Sardheri Bazar during the electoral campaign, he said, adding that nearby shops have also suffered damage. The local party leadership initially believed that the blast was a suicide bombing and the man killed in the explosion was the bomber himself, but police later confirmed that it was a 3 Kg remote controlled bomb planted on a bicycle and the man who died was a passerby.
Separately, a report early Tuesday morning said that two workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement were gunned down in Mehboob Ground, Hyderabad.
Police said one passerby was also injured in the firing by unknown assailants and was shifted to hospital.
“The blast was carried out with a remote controlled device and was planted on a bicycle,” Sardehri Police SHO Gohar Ali said. He also confirmed that one person died while 12 others have been injured in the blast.
Around three kilograms of explosives was used in the bomb, he added.
In Nowshera, two gunmen riding a motorcycle attacked the campaign office of ANP’ candidate for PK13 Shahid Khattak, killing his driver Johar Ali and injuring three others. A larger number of party workers were present at the time of the attack at the Hujra (guesthouse) which is being used as an election office. The attackers fled the scene though the police later cordoned off the area and launched search operation.
The Mardan blast that came early in the morning at Hujra of ANP’s Haji Khan Daraz at Ghando village in the limits of Katlang Police did destroy the guesthouse and partially damaged an adjacent mosque but luckily no human life was lost. The explosives were planted at the main gate of the Hujra and the bang of blast was heard far and wide. Police registered a case and launched a search in the nearby areas, however, no arrests were made till the filing of this report.
ANP, along with PPP and MQM, is being targeted by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and possibly its allied terror outfits. Hundreds of ANP workers and leaders have already lost their lives in Khyber Pakhtoonkhaw, Karachi and other parts of Sindh and Balochistan.
But in district Karak, two candidates of two religious parties were also attacked by unidentified men. However no loss of life was reported in both the incidents. Police said that in first incident two motorcycle riders attacked the vehicular procession of Jamaitul Ulema Islam Samiul Haq (JUI-S) candidate for NA-15, Shah Abdul Aziz, in Jangrezi area of Tehsil Banda Daud Shah in the limits of Shah Saleem Police.
Shah narrowly escaped the attack while all the participants of the rally also remained unhurt.
Hafiz Faisal Tariq, a close aid of the candidate, said they were going to attend a public meeting regarding Shah’s election campaign in the remote union council of Guddikhel.
On the same day in the morning, two attackers opened fire at the guesthouse of former JUI-F MPA Malik Qasim Khan in Khojaki area of Tehsil Takht-e-Nusrati on Indus Highway. Qasim is now contesting as an independent candidate from PK-41 (Karak-I). As a result of the firing a nearby power transformer caught fire while the Hujra was also damaged slightly.
Malik Shamsur Rehman, a relative of Malik Qasim got registered a case at Takht-e-Nusrati Police Station against two brothers, Saleem Ayaz and Sajjad Khan, sons of Mumrez Khan. The alleged accused could not be arrested till filing of this report.
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