[An Nahar] A kaboom claimed by the Taliban near an election rally in restive northwest Pakistain killed two people and injured six including a candidate on Sunday, police said.The roadside kaboom went
kaboom!in the town of Bannu where Adnan Wazir, a former politician from the secular Awami National Party (ANP) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province, was heading a convoy of dozens of vehicles to address the rally,
"The remote-controlled bomb hit the convoy and damaged several vehicles. Two people later died in hospital," Nisar Ahmed Tanoli, a senior police official told AFP.
Wazir, a candidate for the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly in the May 11 national and local polls, was among six injured.
Bannu is close to the lawless tribal area along the Afghan border where Taliban and other Islamic beturbanned goons have hideouts.
The umbrella Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) grabbed credit for the bombing and threatened more attacks against the ANP.
"We claim responsibility for the attack. We are against ANP and Adnan Wazir was a part of the ANP government for five years," TTP front man Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP by telephone from
The TTP has previously made death threats against politicians from the secular ANP, which ruled Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa from 2008 until the provincial assembly was dissolved pending the election.
"We have directed our associates in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to target ANP election rallies and all its leaders," Ehsan said.