PESHAWAR/QUETTA: A candidate running for parliament in next week’s historic election was injured on Saturday as his vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the troubled northwest, officials said.
Raj Mohammad, a National Assembly candidate from the Jamaat-e-Islami, was on his election campaign in the Lower Orakzai Agency when his vehicle hit an IED. “Raj Mohammad and his driver were injured in the attack and their vehicle was badly damaged,” Wali Mohammad, a local government official told AFP. “The victims are out of danger and had no life threatening wounds,” he said. Meanwhile, two people were injured in a grenade attack on the provincial office of JI on Saturday night.
