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India-Pakistan
Poll rally in Wana attacked; two killed
2013-04-21
[Dawn] Two people died and 25 others were maimed on Friday when rockets hit the election rally of an independent candidate in Wana, the main town of the South Wazoo tribal region.

The public meeting organised by the supporters of Naseerulah Wazir, who is running for NA 41, in Mughul Khel Maidan near the scouts camp was about to start when five rockets were fired by unidentified people at around 10.30am. Two rockets hit the venue of the rally, killing two people and injuring 25 others.

The rest of the rockets landed in the nearby fields.

The dead were identified as Munawar Khan and Mohammad Nawaz. Eight of the injured were said to be at death's door.
Naseerulah Wazir has a strong position in the constituency as compared to the candidates of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability...
and Awami National Party.
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