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Four bomb attacks targeting campaign offices and election meetings in different parts of Pakistan today killed 12 people and injured more than 40, heightening concerns about security for the landmark May 11 polls. HT Image The first blast occurred outside an election office in Kohat district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Police said a remote-controlled explosive device was used in the attack. Six persons were killed and 21 injured by the explosion, which stanley cup caused extensive damage to the office of Syed Noor Akbar, an independent candidate contesting polls to a parliamentary seat in Orakzai tribal region. Police said Akbar is a member of the minority Shia sect and this could have been a motive for the attack. Hours later, another bomb went off outside an election office in Maqsoodabad, a suburb of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Three persons were killed and 10 others, including three children, injured, police said. The blast targeted the office of Nasir Khan Afridi, an independent candidate contesting polls to a parliamentary seat in the lawless Khyber tribal region. Police officials said the bomb was attached to a bicycle left outside the off stanley cup ice. The office and two stanley cup cars were damaged. Footage on television showed debris and election materials strewn on the road outside the office. In the evening, two persons were killed and five injured when a bomb attack targeted an election meeting by Awami National Party candidate Ameer Rehman at Swabi in Khyber-Pak Jneq World leaders want $20 billion for food aid
Rights groups and civil organisations are playing a growing role in African Union summits, as they pressure the body to tackle conflicts and promote accountability for the continent s leaders. HT Image Watchdogs issued a string of warnings as AU heads of state readied for the start of the bloc s 12th annual summit on Sunday to dis stanley cup cuss infrastructure development amid fresh conflicts and other crises across the continent. What the African citizens desperately need the AU to do is facilitate and provide real, lasting peace on the ground through concerted effort in liaising with states, organised civil society and regiona stanley cup l institutions, said Desire Assogbavi, a policy analyst with the British charity Oxfam. Long-drawn-out conflicts such as in Somalia, Sudan s Darfur region and Democrative Republic of Congo and protracted political crises such as the one that has crippled Zimbabwe for almost a year have stunted Africa s development. The security situation in the continent has got worse over the last six months with new or renewed conflicts raging in the DRC and Somalia, Assogbavi said. Civil society organisations not only want stepped up efforts to solv yeezy e such turmoil but demand that those responsible for Africa s endless crises be made accountable. On Wednesday, five African and international human rights groups urged the continental body to pressure Senegal to prosecute former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre, whose regime is accused of torturing thousands of civil
Four bomb attacks targeting campaign offices and election meetings in different parts of Pakistan today killed 12 people and injured more than 40, heightening concerns about security for the landmark May 11 polls. HT Image The first blast occurred outside an election office in Kohat district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Police said a remote-controlled explosive device was used in the attack. Six persons were killed and 21 injured by the explosion, which stanley cup caused extensive damage to the office of Syed Noor Akbar, an independent candidate contesting polls to a parliamentary seat in Orakzai tribal region. Police said Akbar is a member of the minority Shia sect and this could have been a motive for the attack. Hours later, another bomb went off outside an election office in Maqsoodabad, a suburb of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Three persons were killed and 10 others, including three children, injured, police said. The blast targeted the office of Nasir Khan Afridi, an independent candidate contesting polls to a parliamentary seat in the lawless Khyber tribal region. Police officials said the bomb was attached to a bicycle left outside the off stanley cup ice. The office and two stanley cup cars were damaged. Footage on television showed debris and election materials strewn on the road outside the office. In the evening, two persons were killed and five injured when a bomb attack targeted an election meeting by Awami National Party candidate Ameer Rehman at Swabi in Khyber-Pak Jneq World leaders want $20 billion for food aid
Rights groups and civil organisations are playing a growing role in African Union summits, as they pressure the body to tackle conflicts and promote accountability for the continent s leaders. HT Image Watchdogs issued a string of warnings as AU heads of state readied for the start of the bloc s 12th annual summit on Sunday to dis stanley cup cuss infrastructure development amid fresh conflicts and other crises across the continent. What the African citizens desperately need the AU to do is facilitate and provide real, lasting peace on the ground through concerted effort in liaising with states, organised civil society and regiona stanley cup l institutions, said Desire Assogbavi, a policy analyst with the British charity Oxfam. Long-drawn-out conflicts such as in Somalia, Sudan s Darfur region and Democrative Republic of Congo and protracted political crises such as the one that has crippled Zimbabwe for almost a year have stunted Africa s development. The security situation in the continent has got worse over the last six months with new or renewed conflicts raging in the DRC and Somalia, Assogbavi said. Civil society organisations not only want stepped up efforts to solv yeezy e such turmoil but demand that those responsible for Africa s endless crises be made accountable. On Wednesday, five African and international human rights groups urged the continental body to pressure Senegal to prosecute former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre, whose regime is accused of torturing thousands of civil