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India-Pakistan
Muqam Escapes Bomb Attack
2014-12-17
[Dawn] PESHAWAR: Pakistain Moslem League-N senior vice-president, Amir Muqam, escaped unhurt, while three police constables got injuries when a bomb went off on the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
city’s Ring Road on Tuesday evening, police said.

Officials said that police were escorting the central PML-N leader from the Governor House to his residence in Hayatabad when a remote controlled device went off near the police van. Three constables, including the police van’s driver suffered injuries and were shifted to hospital. However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
Mr Muqam remained unhurt in the kaboom, said the officials.

They said that Mr Muqam was returning to his residence after visiting the hospitalised victims of the terrorist attack on the Pakistain Army Public School, when the bomb targeted him at Pish Takhar area of the ring road on the outskirts of Peshawar.

The police said that the motive behind the attack could not be known as either the target was PML-N leader or the police.
Prob'ly just politics as usual. They play rough in Pakistan.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors...
the officials said that another bomb went off on the same route, but it didn’t cause any damage.
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