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Among the victims also Haroon Bilour, leader of the NP, Pashtun nationalist party
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At least 13 people died and more than 50 were injured during an attack – Suicide last night in Peshawar, Pakistan, at a rally. Among them also Haroon Bilor, a leader of the NP, nationalist Pashtun party.
The attack took place when Bilour went on stage to contest the outcome of the elections for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Assembly at Peshawar College. The politician was seriously injured and died shortly afterwards at the hospital. The ANP militants who survived the attack reported that a suicide bomber blew himself up as soon as Haroon Bilour arrived. "It was a suicide bombing and the likely target was Bilor," added an explosive agent.
Haroon Bilour was the son of Bashir Bilor, a former governor of the province, who also died during a suicide bombing in September 2012 in Peshawar during a rally before the parliamentary elections. The ANP, a secular and progressive party has always been the target of several extremist movements with a budget of 500 activists and some leaders killed before the elections of 2013. The party Tehrik and Taliban Pakistan (TTP) declared war to AP for his open and anti-Taliban ideas, but so far no claim has come from the attack last night.
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