At least 30 people killed in the attack in Pakistan

At least 30 people were killed in two attacks on election campaigns in Pakistan on Friday. A Baluchistan Awami party in Baluchistan province, southern Pakistan, killed at least 25 people in a suicide bombing that afternoon, provincial interior minister Haider Ali confirmed. Previously, there had been 15 deaths. The party's candidate for the 25 July legislative elections was among the victims. The Islamic State (IS) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorist organizations are active in the region. At least 40 people were injured

Attack in the north

At least five people were killed in the city of Bannu in the north of the country when, in the speech of the former prime minister of the province from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Akram Durrani, a bomb exploded. Durrani, MMA candidate, alliance of Islamist parties, was not hurt. A doctor at the city clinic reported about 30 wounded, some of whom are in critical condition.

Election in less than two weeks

It was already the third attack against activists in a few days. Only on Tuesday, a Pakistani Taliban badbadin had exploded at an event in Peshawar city in northwestern Pakistan and had killed at least 20 people. The Taliban group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan had agreed

On July 25, more than 100 million Pakistani voters will vote for a new National Assembly and provincial parliaments. As a precautionary measure, the electoral commission had asked the military to protect the elections with approximately 370,000 members of the security forces. Since 2015, the number of attacks in Pakistan has declined sharply, mainly because of mbadive military offensives against some Islamist groups.