Pakistani leader says elections to proceed despite bombing that killed 46
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Sunday that Monday's crucial parliamentary elections would go ahead as planned despite a massive suicide car bombing at a campaign rally that killed up to 46 people - many of them supporters of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
The army, meanwhile, imposed a curfew in the northwestern tribal belt town of Parachinar, where the bomber struck Saturday evening at the end of a rally for an independent candidate. Cars were banned from the roads and residents told to stay indoors.
There were conflicting death tolls, but Mushtaq Hussain, a Parachinar security official, put the number at 46 on Sunday.
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