An election candidate and son of former Prime Minister Pakistan Yousuf Raza Gilani was kidnapped Thursday in a rally on the last day of election campaign on Saturday of which is expected to go a Conservative government. Haider Ali Gilani was kidnapped, according to police said he was leavingwith his father and several members of his party , the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of a fertilizer plant in his hometown of Multan, in the eastern province of Punjab. Police sources quoted by local newspaper Express Tribune reported that the goal of the attackers was the former Prime Minister Gilani, but that an inability to access it decided to take his youngest son. The sources explained that fifteen people arrived on the scene in several vehicles and opened fire on the present, as a result of which killed two people, including a candidate's aide kidnapped, and a dozen injured.Witnesses told, by the same means, Gilani's son also received a gunshot wound and was bleeding at the time of being placed in the vehicle their captors.The kidnapping of the son of the former prime minister of the PPP government for most of the last legislature - was banned by the Supreme Court last June - has been condemned by President Asif Ali Zardari, and the current prime minister, Hazar Khan Khoso . The incident has shaken the last day of the campaign before this evening the main parties made their final acts before tomorrow's day of reflection and open the polls on Saturday at 8.00 local time (3.00 GMT) . The Muslim League of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has convened three meetings in their main stronghold, the eastern city of Lahore, which closes with a frenetic activity that was interrupted in solidarity with its rugged great rival. Imran Khan, the PTI leader, rushed on Tuesday from a mobile platform in one of his rallies and suffered serious injuries, including vertebral fractures, which remain hospitalized but have not followed suite directing his followers. The season finale is tonight PTI in Islamabad and will be headed by the number two of Khan and former Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mehmood Qureshi, although party sources told Efe that the charismatic party leader will speak from a screen. Nawaz Sharif is the favorite in all electoral forecasts to victory on Saturday, but the margin is to be seen to get and what other formations seek parliamentary support to form a stable government. The PTI, of conservative populist holds any hope of getting a number of seats enough to be in position to form a coalition government if the PML-N does not reach a comfortable majority or failed in their quest for alliances.
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