Liaqat Baloch, secretary general of Pakistan's most popular Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, said members of his party were strongly considering boycotting the elections.

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The bomber, who was riding a motorcycle, detonated his explosives as a police patrol passed in the main northwestern city of Peshawar, said city police chief Liaqat Ali Khan.

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Standing among scores of men accepting free blankets and clothes from the Pakistan military, Liaqat Ali Mehsud, a teacher, said the road is so good that he's forgotten that his home was destroyed.

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