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Grenades injure seven at Imran Khan rally in Swabi
[Dawn] At least seven people were maimed on Friday in grenade kabooms after a public rally held by Pakistain's wildcard politician Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... near the northwestern town of Swabi, police said. "Unknown men threw two hand grenades on a police van and later opened fire after Khan's public meeting on the outskirts of Swabi, wounding seven people," local police official Muhammad Shah said. Shah said Khan had already left the venue when the attack happened, adding that the injured included four coppers. Another local police official confirmed the incident. More than 4,800 people have been killed across Pakistain in attacks blamed on the Taliban and other krazed killer networks based in the tribal belt since government troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007. The 59-year-old former cricketer Khan has ridden a wave of support buoyed by mass rallies and has openly backed the courts' pursuit of embattled President Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... Speculation is widespread in Pakistain that Khan's party is being quietly groomed by the powerful military, which are believed to back moves in the courts to chip away at Zardari and Gilani's authority. Posted by: Fred 2012-02-11 |
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