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Bomb kiills 15+, injures Pakistani minister
A suicide bomber has killed at least 15 people and injured Pakistan's interior minister at a rally in North West Frontier Province, police say.
Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao had finished giving a speech at the meeting in Charsadda when the blast occurred, a police official said.
Mr Sherpao was taken to hospital in nearby Peshawar with minor injuries, official Mohammed Khan told AP.
The province lies on Pakistan's troubled border with Afghanistan.
A son of the minister as well as elected politicians and security officials are among the injured, Mr Khan added.
Bacha Gul Wazir, the province's home secretary, told Reuters news agency he had seen blood on the minister's face but he did not know whose it was.
According to an unnamed intelligence official quoted by AP, security guards blocked the attacker as he tried to get close to the minister.
The attacker detonated the bomb moments later, the source said.
Pakistan's President Gen Pervez Musharraf is due to have talks in Turkey on Monday about security along the Afghan border with his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai.
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Mr Sherpao was taken to hospital in nearby Peshawar with minor injuries, official Mohammed Khan told AP.
The province lies on Pakistan's troubled border with Afghanistan.
A son of the minister as well as elected politicians and security officials are among the injured, Mr Khan added.
Bacha Gul Wazir, the province's home secretary, told Reuters news agency he had seen blood on the minister's face but he did not know whose it was.
According to an unnamed intelligence official quoted by AP, security guards blocked the attacker as he tried to get close to the minister.
The attacker detonated the bomb moments later, the source said.
Pakistan's President Gen Pervez Musharraf is due to have talks in Turkey on Monday about security along the Afghan border with his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6603751.stm
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The bombing occurred as people gathered around Sherpao at the end of a public meeting in Charsada, a town 20km northeast of Peshawar, capital of North West Frontier Province.
Security guards blocked the attacker as he tried to get close to Sherpao, an intelligence official said. He detonated the bomb moments later.
Mohammed Khan, a police official, said the minister suffered minor injuries and that he was being moved to a hospital in Peshawar.
Sherpao's son also suffered minor injuries in the attack.
Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's Pakistan correspondent, said Sherpao had faced heavy criticism for his handling of the security situation in country.
He had also made enemies among the Afghan population for forcing many of them out of the country, Hyder said.
The border province has a large community of Afghan refugees, most living in camps.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4466B2C6-0621-43D7-B4B5-648716E834F8.htm