Bomb attack kills two in Pakistan tribal area

Two people have died and over 15 others have been injured in bomb attacks in Pakistan ahead of the country’s general elections.

Pakistani security sources said a bomb blast near an electoral office in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area on Friday left two people dead and ten others injured.

In the town of Quetta in the southwestern province of Balochistan, militants hurled a hand grenade at an office of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). Five people sustained injuries in the attack.

In another incident on Thursday night, one person in a bomb explosion near an office of Awami National Party (ANP) in the city of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.

The death toll from attacks ahead of Pakistan’s elections has surpassed 100.

Pakistan holds its National Assembly elections on May 11. The National Assembly has a total of 342 members, 272 of which are elected by popular vote. The last National Assembly elections were held in February 2008.

Pakistan will also hold elections for 577 seats of the provincial assemblies on the same day.

Pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan have called for attacks in several parts of the country to undermine the elections.

On Thursday, unidentified gunmen kidnapped Ali Haider Gilani, the son of former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, at an election rally for the PPP in the central city of Multan.