Karachi/ Lahore, Aug 18 (ANI): Funeral prayers-in-absentia were offered for the Pakistani provincial minister and other sixteen people who were killed in suicide bomb attack in PM’s political heartland a day earlier. Punjab Home Minister Shuja Khanzada was among at least 16 people killed at his political office near his hometown of Attock, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) west of the capital, Islamabad. Punjab government has announced to observe three-day mourning over the deadly attack that killed Home Minister Shuja Khanzada. About two hundred people offered funeral prayers-in-absentia for the slain minister and other victims in port city Karachi. Ismail Rahoo, politician and senior leader of Sindh chapter of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), who attended the prayers said the blood of innocent people will not go in vain. The Pakistani provincial minister killed in 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.
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