A teenage suicide bomber waded into a political rally by an Islamic party, and his explosives detonated Monday, said a policeman.The bomb, which went to Peshawar, a northwestern town who were tormented by bombs last year, with more than 20 people, including a leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, a hard-line political party, which until recently in the had publicly supported the Taliban. A policeman was among the dead.
Television pictures showed a scene of mad-capped Muslim youth protest help people on stretchers. Nobody has claimed responsibility.
It was unclear whether the target was to rally, or the police station nearby. A bomb disposal officer said the young bomber was wearing an amazing 15 pounds of explosives.
If the goal was rally would be highly unusual. Jamaat-e-Islami is the oldest Islamic Pakistani political party and its hard-line language sometimes echoes of the Taliban: anti-Western, anti-India and strongly against small religious minorities in Pakistan - Christians, Shiites and an Islamic sect known as Ahmedis. But the party is also part of government's operations in Pakistan and critical of any direct attack on Pakistan army, his people.
A senior police official in Peshawar, Kareem Khan, said the policeman who was slain Gulfat Hussain, a Shiite. The members of the sect are several goals since late last week in the violent attacks in western Pakistan.
Mr Hussain was active in protecting the Shiite processions, often the procession to Holy Places militant attack dragging, said Officer Khan. Al Qaeda is fiercely anti-Shiite. Sectarian militancy is so widespread that Shiite policemen sometimes pray not to be posted in the field, for fear that they will get because of their sect.
It was the second bomb on Monday. The first exploded just seven hours before the close of a school and a student slain and wounded 10, authorities said.
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