Pakistan: 22 dræbt under selvmordsbomber-angreb på indenrigsminister

I Pakistan er endnu et forsøg fra islamiske terroristers side på at slå et højtstående regeringsmedlem ihjel slået fejl:

Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao had finished giving a speech at the meeting in Charsadda when the blast occurred, a police official said.

Mr Sherpao was taken to hospital in nearby Peshawar with minor injuries, official Mohammed Khan told AP...

According to an unnamed intelligence official quoted by AP, security guards blocked the attacker as he tried to get close to the minister.

The attacker detonated the bomb moments later, the source said...

Gen Musharraf narrowly escaped injury in two bombings which claimed 17 lives in Rawalpindi in December 2003.

In July 2004, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz survived a suicide bombing as he campaigned for a by-election west of the capital, Islamabad. Eight people were killed.

De to angreb på General Musharraf var planlagt af Nashwan abd al-Razzaq abd al-Baqi, den top-al Qaeda-leder der tidligere på ugen blev overført til Guantanamo.

Kilder:

• BBC 28/7 2007: Bomb kills 22 at Pakistani rally