* Blast at JUI-F election rally kills 16, wounds 36 in Kurram
* NP candidate escapes grenade attack in Turbat
* PPP candidate’s election office attacked in Charsadda
PESHAWAR: Bomb blasts and rocket attacks targeting election candidates and polling booths continued to mar the pre-election environment on Monday.
At least sixteen people were killed and 36 others, including a candidate of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl, Maulana Ainuddin, were injured in a bomb explosion at an election meeting in Upper Kurram tribal region near the border with Afghanistan, officials said. Reuters said that 36 people were killed in the blast.