{"id":37361,"date":"2013-05-06T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=37361"},"modified":"2013-05-06T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T13:21:00","slug":"blast-in-election-rally-kills-15-in-pakistan-37361","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/blast-in-election-rally-kills-15-in-pakistan-37361\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast in election rally kills 15 in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37364\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37364\" alt=\"Fire caused by blast in Pakistan: File Pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Blast-Pakistan-Nationalturk-6.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"189\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire caused by blast in Pakistan: File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>At least 15 people were killed and over 40 injured when a \u00a0powerful blast ripped through an election rally of rightwing Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) in Pakistan.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, May 6 \/Nationalturk- \u00a0A powerful blast ripped through an election rally of rightwing Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) in the Sewak area of Pakistan\u2019s central Kurram Agency on Monday, killing 15 persons and injuring over 40 others.<\/p>\n<p>Political agent of Khurram agency Riaz Masood told Pakistan\u2019s newspaper, The Dawn that the powerful explosion took place when a planted device detonated inside madrassa, where the election rally was taking place.<\/p>\n<p>JUI-F leader Munir Orakzai, a former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) lawmaker contesting from NA-38 constituency, was sitting on the stage when the blast took place. He survived the bombing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMunir was getting off the stage when the power blast took place. Munir sustained suffered minor injuries,\u201d his brother Dr Abdul Qadeer Orakzai told Pakistan\u2019s newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least 15 people were killed in the blast and over 42 others injured. The injured were shifted to Parachinar hospital, where doctors have termed condition of many of them as critical,\u201d a police officer said.<\/p>\n<p>He said immediately after the blast, police and security forces laid siege around the area and launched combing operation to flush out the militants responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n<h2>TTP&#8217;s hand suspected<\/h2>\n<p>No militant group has claimed the responsibility of the bombing so far. But authorities apprehend that the bombing would have been carried by dreaded militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s attack was the first deadly attack on a political party in Pakistan&#8217;s tribal belt since campaigning began for Pakistan&#8217;s polls, which mark a historic democratic transition in a country ruled by the military for half its life.<\/p>\n<p>Over 72 persons have been killed in attacks targeting politicians and political parties since April 11. Pakistan goes to polls on May 11.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 15 people were killed and over 40 injured when a  powerful blast ripped through an election rally of rightwing Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) in Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,85,101,14],"tags":[50989,50991,50980,45104,45103,50981,50982,50987,50984,9236,50986,50988,636,50990,50979,50985,41695,50983,43131,42578,42251],"class_list":["post-37361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-dr-abdul-qadeer-orakzai","tag-dreaded-militant-group","tag-election-rally","tag-fata","tag-federally-administered-tribal-areas","tag-jamiat-ulema-e-islam-fazl","tag-jui-f","tag-jui-f-leader","tag-khurram-agency","tag-lawmaker","tag-madrassa","tag-munir-orakzai","tag-pakistan","tag-parachinar-hospital","tag-powerful-blast","tag-riaz-masood","tag-rightwing","tag-sewak-area","tag-tehreek-e-taliban-pakistan","tag-the-dawn","tag-ttp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}