Pakistani poet’s mausoleum blown up

By IANS,

Islamabad : The under-construction mausoleum of poet and politician Ajmal Khan Khattak in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was blown up and an hour later a second explosion wounded a dozen people who had gathered there, a media report said.


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The incident took place in Akora Khattak area Wednesday night.

Ajmal Khan Khattak, a former president of the Awami National Party, died in February 2010.

About 5 kg of explosives were used in the blasts that badly damaged parts of the mausoleum, reported Dawn Thursday.

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