PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – A roadside bomb attack targeted a former Pakistan provincial cabinet minister on Sunday, killing him and three other people in the country's restive northwest, police said.
The bomb exploded in Bagto village, about 10 kilometres (six miles) from the northwestern town of Hangu in an area with a history of sectarian clashes between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims Urdu (Urdu: اُردوُ, IPA: [ˈʊrduː] (
listen)) is a Central Indo-Aryan language[1][2] of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. It is one of the two official languages (the other being English) of Pakistan. It is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of five Indian states. Its vocabulary developed under Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and Turkic. In modern times Urdu vocabulary has been significantly influenced by English. Urdu was mainly developed in western Uttar Pradesh, India, which is the seat of Hindustani languages in the Indian Subcontinent, but began taking shape during the and minority Shiite Muslims.
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