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India-Pakistan
Pakistain: Suspected militants fire rockets at politician's home in northwest
2008-10-07
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"Legume, I have a strong suspicion we're under attack by militants!"
"Sir! How do you do it?"
(AKI) - Suspected Taliban militants fired two rockets at the home of a top local politician in volatile northwestern Pakistan but no one was injured, police were quoted as saying on Monday.

North West Frontier Province chief minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti was not at home at the time of the attack on Sunday. The rockets missed his house in the town of Mardan but damaged two nearby properties, Peshawar-based daily The Frontier Post reported. Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack.

Hoti was in the provincial capital Peshawar, at the time of the attack, and police are combing the area to find the culprits, said Mardan's police chief Iqbal Khan.

Insurgents have targeted several politicians in NWFP. Just four days ago, a leading member of Pakistan's coalition government, the Pashtun nationalist Awami National Party chief Asfandyar Wali Khan escaped a suicide bombing of his home in nearby Wali Bagh. Khan said that local Taliban denied responsibility for the attack, which killed four people, blaming it on foreign militants. Hoti is also a member of the ANP, which is strongly opposed to the hardline Islamist Taliban.
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