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Northwest Pakistan

Suicide bomb kills minister on Eid day

AFP, Peshawar
A suicide bomber killed at least eight people including a provincial law minister after breaking into his home in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said.
Israr Ullah Gandapur, law minister for the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, was meeting constituents in his home village of Kulachi when the bomber struck, provincial health minister Shaukat Yousafzai told AFP.
More than 25 people were also wounded in the attack, which occurred on the first day of the Islamic festival of Eid-ul-Azha, he added.
Gandapur is the most senior member of former cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI) to be killed in a wave of attacks which have left hundreds of people dead in recent months.
Yousafzai, the health minister, said the suicide bomber had managed to break into the area despite "very tight security".
The attack was later claimed by little-known militant group Ansarul Mujahideen in a phone call to AFP.
"It was revenge for the martyrdom of some of our mujahideen," Abu Baseer, a spokesman for the group said, referring to the killing of militants during a daring jailbreak in July.
Taliban militants armed with guns, mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and bombs bombarded the prison in the town of Dera Ismail Khan, before escaping with some 250 inmates after a three-hour shootout that left 13 dead.
Wednesday's attack involved 8-10 kilograms of locally made explosive, Inayat Ullah, a bomb disposal expert, told AFP.
Gandapur won his seat as an independent from the village of Kulachi, near the city of Dera Ismail Khan, which borders the country's lawless tribal regions where the Taliban and al-Qaeda have canned out strongholds. Gandapur is now the third lawmaker from the province to have been killed following the elections on May 11.
Farid Khan and Imran Khan Mohmand, killed in separate attacks in June, were also members of the PTI party, which promised to pursue dialogue with the Taliban rather than back military operations like its predecessors.
The main Pakistani political parties including PTI last month backed a government proposal to formally seek negotiations with the militants, who have been waging a bloody insurgency against the state since 2007.
Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud last week said he was still open to peace talks, but would continue to target the US and its allies.