An attempt at a rally in Pakistan leaves 15 dead and dozens injured

At least 15 people have died and 45 were injured after a bomb blast at an election rally in the Kurram tribal area in northwest Pakistan, according to police sources. The attack took place in the area of Sewak when a candidate's religious party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) is leading a group of followers and a device exploded near the scene, according to a local official in Kurram. At least twenty of the injuries are serious. The local 'Geo' has stated thatat the meeting there were about 3,000 people. The target of the attack was the candidate Munir Orakzai , who has emerged unscathed, although as reported by the prime minister's office, the pump has caused injury to another candidate, Ainudín Shakir. The attack has been condemned "vigorously" by Prime Ministerinterim Hazar Jan Joso, who has expressed a note "regret the loss of innocent lives." The JUI-F, led by religious Fazlur Rehman, was the largest Islamist party with parliamentary presence in the last term, in part because the bulk of the religious forces boycotted the 2008 elections. Rehman was the subject of two bloody attacks a year ago that claimed the lives on successive days almost 30 people in the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, neighboring tribal areas. With an ambiguous discourse on the problem of Taliban violence, sometimes almost justifying, JUI-F conflict with the party of former criquetista Imran Khan by bringing together the votes of more conservative religious sectors in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Violence in the country has intensified because of the elections to be held the next day 11.