Narrowly Escapes Suicide Bomber
PESHAWAR (Dawn News, Monday Nov. 19 2012): The former chief of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), Pakistan’s largest religio-political party, narrowly escaped a bomb attack on Monday as a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives near his convoy in northwest Mohmand tribal agency.
Shamsur Rehman Khan says Qazi Husain Ahmad, the former JI chief, escaped unhurt from the attack. Khan, who is a government administrator in Mohmand, says the bomber was wearing a burqa and had explosives strapped to her body. The suicide bomber detonated her explosives after a vehicle with the former JI chief had passed, a government official said.
Four people, including the bodyguard of the former JI chief, were injured in the attack, officials said. A vehicle was also damaged although Ahmad’s vehicle was not damaged or hit by the force of the blast.
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