ISLAMABAD, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- The Home Minister of Pakistan's Punjab province, Shuja Khanzada, and at least 12 other people were killed in a suicide attack on Sunday carried out by the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militant Islamist group.
The suicide bomb attack was launched against Khanzada's political office as he was meeting supporters in his hometown city of Attock, about 50 miles north of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.