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ImagesGRAVES: Pakistani villagers prepare graves for poker shape playing cards who died in
the suicide attack apparently aimed at ex-Interior Minister Aftab Khan
Sherpao.

50 die in Pakistan suicide blast near home of former minister
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GravesEmail PictureTariq Mahmood / AFP/Getty ImagesGRAVES: Pakistani
villagers prepare graves for those jumbo playing cards died in the suicide attack
apparently aimed at ex-Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao. By Laura
King, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 21, 2007 KARACHI, PAKISTAN -- Striking on one of the year's
most important Muslim holidays, a suicide bomber killed at least 50
people and injured dozens more this morning near the home of a former
government minister in volatile northwest Pakistan, police custom playing cards The attack, apparently aimed at ex-Interior Minister Aftab better auto insurance Sherpao, heightened tensions less than three cheap renters insurance before
parliamentary elections that are almost certain to alter the balance
of power in Pakistan, considered a crucial U.S. ally in the fight
against the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

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The blast also came six days after President Pervez Musharraf lifted a
monthlong state of emergency, which was akin to martial law. Musharraf
said the emergency decree was meant to help fight Islamic militants
who have staged dozens of attacks across Pakistan this year. However,
he used the emergency to crack down on a broad range of political
opponents.

Today's attack marked the second cheap car insurance this year that Sherpao was the
apparent target of cheap auto insurance suicide bomber. Nearly 30 people were killed when
a suicide bomber struck a rally he attended in April, also in
northwest Pakistan.

Up until a caretaker government was put in place emo fashion month in advance
of the elections, Sherpao was the country's most senior civilian
security surfboard shape playing cards He is running as a candidate in the Jan. 8
parliamentary vote.

The attack occurred as worshipers gathered at a mosque in the Sherpao
family compound in a community from which his clan takes its name.
Sherpao was receiving visitors at the start of Eid al-Adha, a
imprinted playing cards festival that is a focal point of the Islamic calendar.

The village of Sherpao indie clothing custom faces playing cards 25 miles northeast of Peshawar, the
capital of the North-West Frontier Province. The most seriously
wounded were rushed to hospitals in the city, and smaller local
clinics were quickly overwhelmed by the number of injured.

Witnesses said the attacker mingled with worshipers, detonating his
explosives in the midst of morning prayers.

The force of the explosion left automobile insurance renters insurance of scattered limbs and
bloodied scraps of clothing.

independent style was reported by state television to be uninjured, but a local
official said one of his sons was hurt.

Islamic militants are entrenched in the region surrounding Peshawar,
which lies close to the Afghan border. U.S. intelligence reports say
Al Qaeda and the Taliban have used the remote, rugged area to regroup
and rebuild their strength since the U.S invaded Afghanistan in 2001.

Hundreds of Pakistanis have died this year in suicide bombings playing cards promotion other attacks house insurance Islamic militants.

The cheap life insurance intensified after government forces stormed a radical
mosque in the capital in July, killing the chief cleric and dozens of
his followers. Militant leaders said they held Musharraf and his
senior associates responsible for the deaths, and vowed to avenge
them.

The Associated Press contributed custom poker cards this report.

laura.king@latimes.com

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