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Blast at Pakistan election rally, casualties feared

ISLAMABAD
Sat Feb 9, 2008 8:18am EST

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A bomb exploded at an election rally in northwest Pakistan on Saturday and casualties were feared, a political party official said.

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"The bomb happened at a rally which our leader Afrasiab Khattak was attending," said Zahid Khan, information secretary of the Awami National Party. Khan said casualties were feared in the blast in the town of Charsadda in North West Frontier province, but he did not know if Khattak, a top leader of the ethnic Pashtun nationalist party, was safe.

(Reporting by Kamran Haider; Editing by Robert Birsel)



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