PESHAWAR: Advisor to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Engineer Ameer Muqam survived a roadside bomb blast on his way home, police said.
Muqam was returning home after visiting hospitalised victims of the school raid in Peshawar when a bomb blast went off near his vehicle.
"A roadside bomb blast exploded as Muqam's vehicle was passing by at Pish Takhar area of ring road at the outskirts of Peshawar," senior police official Muhammad Ijaz Khan told AFP.
Khan said Muqam's driver and two guards were injured.
Faisal Shahzad, another senior police official confirmed the incident and said the driver and guards were in stable condition.
Earlier in the day, Pakistani Taliban militants stormed a military-run school in the northwestern city in a deadly assault that killed 135 people, most of them students.
Police officials said the combat operation was over however military personnel were carrying out a search operation in the building.
The military spokesman said special forces have rescued more than a dozen staff and students from the school building.
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Condemning isn't enough for this heinous act of brutality. The real motives of such crime should be sort out.Why TTP has become so aggressive? Even the innocent kids are becoming war victims. Where are Agencies????? If agencies have sent clues about the incident, then responsible persons should be dealt severely. As in majority of cases agencies give clues about the upcoming incidents but the local law enforcement departments fail to respond well in time.
Condemning isn't enough for this heinous act of brutality. The real motives of such crime should be sort out.Why TTP has become so aggressive? Even the innocent kids are becoming war victims. Where are Agencies????? If agencies have sent clues about the incident, then responsible persons should be dealt severely.
@Andaleeb:
They're too busy enjoying tax payer money and meddling into internal politics for personal gains.
Pakistan has become a war zone. What are the agencies doing?