Assassinated Pakistani minister was on watchlist for retaliation


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  • Monday, 17 Aug 2015

A soldier walks on sections of a collapsed roof after a blast near the home of the home minister of Punjab province, Shuja Khanzada, in Attock, Pakistan, August 16, 2015. REUTERS/Khuram Parvez

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani provincial minister killed in a suicide bomb attack had been warned he was a target for retaliation by a militant after police killed the leader of the radical sectarian group last month.

Punjab Home Minister Shuja Khanzada was among at least 16 people killed at his political office near his hometown of Attock, about 80 km (50 miles) west of the capital, Islamabad.

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