http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/04/201341616343565646.html
Deadly blast hits Pakistan election rally
Nine people were killed at an election rally in Pakistan for the Awami National Party . Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, a senior leader of the secular Awami National Party barely escaped with his life when a car bomb, likely driven by a suicide bomber, exploded in the middle of a large group of people at the event. This was not the first attack on the AWP either, last year the party leader Bashir Bilour was assassinated when the Taliban posted a large ransom on his head. The secular movement obviously receives a lot of negative attention in the heavily-religious Middle East which is a shame because a democratic election isn't going to be able to improve the state of the country if everyone isn't able to state their opinions and have an equal say.
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