MMA candidate holds PTI leader responsible for Bannu blast

Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) candidate for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly from Bannu Malik Shereen has held Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s Malik Shah Muhammad Khan responsible for the bomb attack on his convoy on Saturday which injured him and six other people.

In the FIR on Sunday, the MMA candidate for PK-89 has blamed Malik Shah and his brother Malik Gulbaz Khan for the IED blast in Bannu that left seven people injured including a Frontier Constabulary worker. The FIR includes charges of terrorism. Where Shah has previously served as a provincial minister, Gulbaz is a district member of PTI.

Malik Shereen’s convoy was attacked when it was passing through the Takhti Khel area in the PK-89 constituency as part of the election campaign. Initial reports revealed the explosives were planted on a motorcycle which exploded in the path of the convoy.

Earlier this month, at least 10 people were injured in a blast at the election office of a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate in Razmak tehsil of North Waziristan tribal district.