Bomb kills Pakistani anti-Taliban politician

A suicide bomber in northwestern Pakistan killed the head of a local peace committee, three of his guards and two passers-by on Saturday, police said. Fateh Khan, whose committee opposes the Taliban, was killed as he left a petrol station in the main city of Buner, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, 150km northeast of Peshawar. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack targeting Khan, local media quoted their spokesperson as saying. "The suicide bomber blown himself up in front of Fateh Khan's vehicle. Three guards boarding the vehicle were also killed in the attack," Jehanzeb Khan, the district police chief, told the AFP news agency. "One of those injured was in critical condition. We have referred them to Peshawar hospital after giving them a blood transfusion. Two others injured are admitted here in this hospital ward. The rest of the injured have been sent home after dressing and other treatment," a source added.