Pakistan's secular Pashtun party defiant after Taliban bomber kills 20 activists


  • World
  • Wednesday, 11 Jul 2018

PESHAWAR/KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's Awami National Party vowed on Wednesday not to be swayed from its resolve to face down terrorists, a day after a Taliban suicide bombing killed a score of its activists, including the son of a party leader assassinated in 2012.

The secular party, drawn chiefly from the Pashtun ethnic group that also provides the Taliban with many recruits, has long competed with it and other Islamist groups in Pakistan's northwestern region bordering Afghanistan.

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