Pakistan candidate shot dead after Taliban attack
Islamabad. A candidate running for Pakistan’s national assembly at historic polls next week has been shot dead, police have said.Police said that Sadiq Zaman Khattak, the Awami National Party (ANP) candidate, had been shot dead on Friday along with his three-year-old son in Karachi.
Pakistani army officials have left for Sindh province on Friday to protect polling stations ahead of the election. Net photo.