, the day's second attack on a political event ahead of the upcoming election.
Pak media reported that over 200 other people were also injured in the Friday bombing claimed by the ISIS Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...terrorist group in Mastung town, near the thriving provincial capital of Quetta.
Agha Umar Bungalzai, the provincial home minister, confirmed that the blast also killed Siraj Raisani, younger brother of former provincial chief minister Mir Aslam, who was running for a provincial assembly seat with Balochistan Awami Party (BAP).
"Mir Siraj Raisani succumbed to wounds while he was being shifted to Quetta," Bungalzai said.
Pakistain's caretaker government launched a crackdown on political gatherings on Friday after former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...returned home to rally his party ahead of the general elections.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court on July 6 handed down a 10-year jail term to Sharif in a corruption case linked to his family's purchase of upscale flats in London.