[Dawn] A provincial cabinet minister from the Pakistain People's Party (PPP) beat feet unhurt Monday when Talibs opened fire on his vehicle in the country's northwest, officials said.Amjad Khan Afridi, minister for housing and physical planning in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province, was travelling in his bullet-proof car when forces of Evil hiding in the Bilitang area of Kohat district opened fire, police said.
"Militants fired three sniper shots from the nearby hills. One bullet hit the car's windscreen. The minister is safe," Mubarak Zeb, police chief in Kohat district, told AFP.
"The minister was the target. Militants were involved in this attack," he added.
An intelligence official in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, the scenic provincial capital, blamed the attack on the Taliban.
Afridi had a police escort at the time of the attack, the official added.
Pakistain's northwest is deeply troubled by violence blamed on the Taliban and al-Qaeda allies.
Since 2007, more than 4,700 people have been killed across the country in Death Eater attacks.