Pakistan

Pakistanis mourn after 128 martyred in Mastung blastQuetta: Mourners gathered Saturday to bury their dead after a blast martyred 128 people at a political rally in one of the countrys deadliest attacks, underscoring ongoing security challenges following years of dramatic improvements.Daesh claimed suicide attack in the town of Mastung, near Quetta, was the latest in a series of bombings targeting campaign events in the last week, sparking fears of more violence ahead of nationwide polls on July 25.Hospitals in the area have been placed under "emergency" management after being overwhelmed yesterday, with around 150 also injured in the blast -- many of them still in critical condition after suffering head trauma."We have imposed emergency in the hospitals and cancelled the vacations of the doctors and paramedics," Balochistan home minister Agha Umar Bungalzai told AFP.
The provincial home secretary Haider Shako added that extra security forces had been deployed in "sensitive areas" and warned politicians to remain "vigilant".Among the dead was Siraj Raisani, who was running for a provincial seat with the newly-formed local Balochistan Awami Party (BAP).The BAP suspended campaign-related events on Saturday and has called for its supporters to observe three days of mourning.The attack was the deadliest since Taliban militants assaulted a school in Peshawar in 2014, killing over 150 people, mostly children, and one of the deadliest in Pakistans long struggle with militancy.
The explosion in Mastung came hours after four people were martyred and 39 injured when a bomb hidden inside a motorcycle detonated close to another politicians convoy in Bannu.The politician -- Akram Khan Durrani, a candidate of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) party -- survived.No group has yet claimed responsibility for that attack.
And on Tuesday, a bomb targeted a rally by the Awami National Party (ANP) in Peshawar.
Local ANP leader Haroon Bilour was among the 22 martyred.The bombings come at a moment of increasing political turmoil in Pakistan as former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was arrested after arriving in the eastern city of Lahore late Friday, as he aims to energise his embattled partys base -- injecting fresh uncertainty into the country days ahead of the polls.





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