Fears of more violence ahead of the Pakistan election after bomber kills 130

Islamabad – A week of bombings on political rallies has the relative peace of Pakistan's general election campaign, culminating in a devastating suicide attack that killed at least 130 people at a rally in the southwestern Baluchistan province.

As campaigning intensifies In the 1920s, the largest number of ethnic minorities in the United States of America (19659002) The July 25 election features dozens of parties, with two main contenders: -cricket hero Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehree-i-Insaf and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, which vows to win a second term despite the jailing of founder, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, one has corruption conviction.

Islamic State claimed Friday night's suicide bombing at a rally for the Baluchistan Awami Party (BAP). Among the 130 killed was the party's provincial badembly candidate Siraj Raisani.

A video clip showed Raisani speaking just before the attack, the crowds are on the ground under a wide shot before the blast hit and the image cut off.

A senior party official said the attack would not pick their election hopes. "It's a big loss as far as Mr. Raisani concerned for us …" But Anwar ul Haq Kakar, a BAP member of Pakistan's Senate.

Pakistan's campaign in the Pakistani Taliban during the 2013 election, which saw the lives of 170 people killed, according to the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies. [19659002

On Tuesday, Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up at a rally by the Awami National Party (ANP) in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing 20 people.

Among the dead in Peshawar was ANP candidate Haroon Bilour, whose father, senior ANP leader Bashir Bilour, was himself killed in a suicide bombing in the city.

And on Friday, another bomb struck the convoy of the religious Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal party (MMA) in the northern town of Bannu, killing four people.

Though overall violence has ebbed in Pakistan in recent years following an army offensive on militant strongholds in the northwest, both the Pakistani Taliban and the Islamic State still launching attacks in Afghanistan.

Pakistan 's army will deploy about 371,000 troops on election day, almost three times number in 2013, to protect the polling places.

Reuters