http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/article/security_briefings/110208%0A Comments for "Secular Pashtuns under attack, " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/article/security_briefings/110208%0A <p> A car bomber killed ten people, including acandidate in upcoming elections, in northwest Pakistan when he slammed hisvehicle into the candidate&#39;s convoy. <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/50DBAF53-D406-4A20-95ED-442DF374359F.htm" target="_blank">Nisar Ali Khan</a> was due to run as anindependent, but was thought to have close links to the Awami National Party, asecular leftist Pashtun nationalist party. The attack was the third against theANP and its allies in less than a week. </p> <p> The Frontier Post, a daily newspaper publishedin the Pashtun border regions, condemns the attack on an ANP election rally in<a href="http://www.thefrontierpost.com/News.aspx?ncat=ed&amp;nid=33&amp;ad=11-02-2008" target="_blank">Charsadda</a>, which left 27 dead on Sunday. The paper sees the blast as part of a&quot;deeper conspiracy to divide up the Pashtuns and set them at one another&#39;sthroats&quot;. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/article/security_briefings/110208%0A" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/article/security_briefings/110208%0A">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/article/security_briefings/110208%0A#comment Creative Commons normal security briefings terrorism Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:35:35 +0000 terrorism.openDemocracy 35774 at http://www.opendemocracy.net