Islamabad. At least eight people, including the son of an influential Afghan cleric, have been killed and 45 others wounded after a suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a bus in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, police say.
Islamabad. At least eight people, including the son of an influential Afghan cleric, have been killed and 45 others wounded after a suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a bus in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, police say.Qari Hilal, the son of cleric Qazi Amin Waqad, died in Monday’s suicide bombing which appeared to have targeted Sahibzada Anees, a senior official in the city administration.He had passed by shortly before the blast in the Jehangir Abad neighbourhood.Qazi Amin Waqad is a member of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, which is trying to draw the Afghan Taliban into peace talks.Hilal was organising a conference of Afghan and Pakistani religious scholars to oppose militancy, Afghan consulate officials quoted by the Reuters news agency said.The attack is the latest in a wave of violence that has rocked Pakistan ahead of national elections on May 11."At least eight people were killed and 45 others were wounded in the suicide bombing,” Mohammad Faisal, a police official, told the AFP news agency.