PTI claimant Ikramullah Gandapur harmed as blast targets car in DI Khan
DI KHAN: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) claimant Sardar Ikramullah Gandapur was among 3 harmed as a blast targetted his car in DI Khan’s Kalachi Tehsil on Sunday, military officials said.
The harmed have been shifted to District Headquarters Hospital for treatment, a district military officer said.
“Ikramullah’s ensure and motorist have also been harmed in a attack,” a DPO added.
Following a incident, confidence army and military reached a site and cordoned off a area. Investigations are underneath way, a military said.
Sources pronounced a occurrence appears to be a self-murder attack.
The former cultivation apportion in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is contesting a Jul 25 polls from PK-99 (DI Khan-V).
Ikramullah’s brother, Israrullah Gandapur, a PTI provincial minister, was killed in a self-murder bombing in Oct 2013 in Kalachi in a self-murder attack.
PTI Chairman Imran Khan, in a tweet, cursed a conflict on his celebration claimant and wished him a rapid recovery.
Electioneering harmed by violence
A spate of militant attacks has taken place in a stream month. On Jul 10, a explosve targeted a convene by a Awami National Party (ANP) in Peshawar, martyring internal celebration personality Haroon Bilour along with 21 others.
An conflict on a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) procession in Bannu on Jul 13 followed a comfortless Peshawar incident. The Bannu occurrence claimed lives of during slightest 4 people, while 10 others were harmed in a explosion.
Later a same day, in what was one of a deadliest militant attacks in a country’s history, over 130 people were martyred when a self-murder bomber blew himself adult during an choosing convene of Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) claimant Nawab Siraj Raisani in Mastung’s Darengarh area.
Raisani was among those killed now while a genocide fee of a blast currently stands during 151.
A week after a Mastung blast, on Jul 16, ANP personality Daud Khan Achakzai was harmed after unclear persons non-stop glow on a guest residence of a party’s claimant Zmrak Khan Achakzai in Chaman.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz personality and former sovereign apportion Sheikh Aftab Ahmed’s car was dismissed during in Attock as was a procession of former primary apportion Yousaf Raza Gilani’s son Ali Musa in Multan recently.