A chief minister in Pakistan is the head of the government of a province of the country - pretty much like a governor of a state in America.
From the article at DAWN:
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Haider Khan Hoti remained unhurt in a suicide attack that targeted his convoy in Mardan on Friday, DawnNews reported.
All other members of the chief minister’s convoy also remained unhurt in the blast that took place outside the Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan.
The attack occurred when the provincial chief minister was on its way to attend a meeting.
The attack on the senior Awami National Party (ANP) leader comes nearly two months after the killing of Bashir Ahmed Bilour in a suicide bomb explosion in Peshawar.
As you can see from the article, there's also word that the Taliban have rejected any offers of peace agreements in Pakistan and why shouldn't they? The Taliban have the world by the tail right now in Pakistan - they have a Pakistani government and military unwilling to actually try to root them out of the country and in just a matter of months they will have free reign in the neighboring country of Afghanistan.
It's my estimation that the Taliban are presently assessing just how much of northwestern Pakistan they can annex into their new country of Afghanistan when they topple the Karzai government.
CM Hoti escapes suicide attack in Mardan
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Haider Khan Hoti remained unhurt in a suicide attack that targeted his convoy in Mardan on Friday, DawnNews reported.
All other members of the chief minister’s convoy also remained unhurt in the blast that took place outside the Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan.
The attack occurred when the provincial chief minister was on its way to attend a meeting.
The attack on the senior Awami National Party (ANP) leader comes nearly two months after the killing of Bashir Ahmed Bilour in a suicide bomb explosion in Peshawar.
The attack that killed Bilour was claimed by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The ANP, which has been a continual target of militant groups operating in northwest Pakistan, also recently convened an all parties’ conference for developing a consensus on countering militancy in the country.
However, today the Pakistani Taliban rejected the offer of peace talks that had come out of the ANP-led conference.
“The Taliban are still waiting for a serious and meaningful response to peace talks offer from the Pakistani government and the military,” TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told Dawn.com.
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