The leader of one of Pakistan's main opposition parties, Asif Ali Zardari, has appealed for calm after a suicide bombing at an election meeting killed thirty-seven people. It happened in Parachinar near the Afghan border.
Mr Zardari, the widower of the assassinated party leader Benazir Bhutto, said the bombers wanted Pakistan to give up the path of democracy.
Pakistan's general election on Monday is intended to complete a transition to civilian rule. More than eighty-thousand security personnel have been deployed ahead of the vote.
Monday, 17.February.2008
