A bombing at a political rally in Pakistan has killed at least 44 and wounded some 200
The attack tore through a rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader in the country's northwestern Bajur district. Nearly 200 others were wounded in the blast.
Updated July 30, 2023 at 5:02 PM ET
KHAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up at a political rally in a former stronghold of militants in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 44 people and wounding nearly 200 in an attack that a senior leader said was meant to weaken Pakistani Islamists.
The Bajur district near the Afghan border was a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban — a close ally of Afghanistan's Taliban government — before the Pakistani army drove the militants out
