A suspected suicide bomber has killed two people in Pakistan outside the home of a government minister, police said.
Earlier, state-run Pakistan Television said four people had been killed at the home of Minister of Political Affairs Amir Muqam in the northwestern city of Peshawar. But police said two were dead and four wounded in the blast at the front gate.
The minister was unhurt.
"Two policemen were killed and four to five people were injured," said senior police officer Tariq Habib.
The minister, who is also provincial chief of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League party, told PTV that he had seen the bodies of two of his guards and that his brother had been wounded.
The attack comes amidst rising tension throughout the country after Opposition Leader Benazir Bhutto was served with a 30 day detention order to keep her confined to her home in the fear of more suicide attacks. © 2007 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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#1 EMERGENCY
TO HIS EXCELLENCEY PRESIDENT PERVEZ MUSHARRAF
“WE ARE WITH YOU”
EMERGENCY WAS THE BEST SOLUTION TO THE PRESENT SITUATION
I THOUGHT MILLION TIMES HOW TO TELL YOU THIS OR HOW TO CONNECT YOU, STILL DONT KNOW THIS WILL REACH YOU OR NOT BUT BEING OPTIMISTIC, I HAVE TO WRITE.
AS WE KNOW MEDIA AND POLITICIANS HAVE DESTROYED THE IMAGE OF OUR NATION JUST FOR FAME AND STILL THEY DON’T KNOW THE REALITY WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. I AM SHOCKED TO KNOW HOW STUPID THE MANAGEMENT OF THESE OF INTERNATIONAL MEDIA IS, AT WHAT COST THEY ARE EARNING THE FAME. THIS IS NOT PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM ATTITUDE THEY MUST UNDERSTAND THIS. I WISH I CAN SAY SOMETHING ON INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO ARE WITH ME.
TODAY THEY (GEO) ARE ASKING WRONG QUESTION WE ARE NOT TERRORISTS? WHAT A STUPID QUESTION TO ASK- THIS MEANS THEY STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT THEY PROMOTED THE TERRORISM BY SHOWING ON MEDIA HOW SUCCESSFUL THEY ARE. IF THEY UNDERSTAND THIS NOW OTHERWISE IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND. BECAUSE THERE IS TIME AND AGE LIMIT TO UNDERSTAND THE REALITY OF LIFE ONCE IT’S GONE THEN (NO USE TO CRY OVER THE SPILT MILK).
IN PAST AS WE KNOW EMBARISING SITUATIONS WERE CREATED BY MEDIA GEO, AAJ, AND ARY DIGITAL BY EXPLOTING THE EVERY SITUATION, TO PROMOTE THEIR CHENNEL AND THEIR ANCHORS WITHOUT ANY THINKING. ESPECIALLY THE MANAGEMENT OF THESE CHENNELS IS WORKING WITHOUT ANY BRAIN WHAT TO SHOW AND WHAT TO HIDE THEY DONT HAVE ANY IDEA, JUST FOR THE SAKE OF FAME THEY WERE DESTROYING THE ISLAM AND PAKISTAN.
A MILLION TIMES I DISCUSSED THIS TO SO MANY PEOPLE AND MOST OF THEM WERE AGREE WITH ME, THE PEOPLE WHO USE THEIR BRAIN WERE AGIANST ALL THE POLITICIANS SHOWS THE WAY THEY FOUGHT ON INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AND ANCHORS CHARGED THEM TO SEE SOMETHING EXTERA ORDINARY ON WHICH THEY CAN LAUGH LATER ON BUT THEY DONT KNOW THAT PEOPLE LAUGH ABOUT ALL THE FOOLS ON MEDIA.
MANY FOOLS APPEARED ON BBC TO TALK ABOUT THE INTERNAL ISSUES BY ABUSING THEIR COUNTRY MEN THEY DID NOT REALISE WHAT THEY DID. BECAUSE “THEY ARE THE FOOL OF THE FIRST WATER”. THEY MADE FUN OF THEIRSELF BY GIVING STUPID STATEMENTS.
PLEASE TAKE STRICK ACTIONS ABOUT THE TROUBLE MAKERS WHOEVER THEY ARE, THEY MAY BE POLITIONS, MULAHS, OR OTHERS WHO TAKE INDIRECT BENEFIT OF THE SITUATION. I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND INNER AND OUTER THREATS.
HOPE INSHA ALLAH TO SEE YOU SOMETIME MAY BE
BEST WISHES
AAMER ANWAR
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