The leader of the Awami National Party (ANP) and his bodyguard have been killed by pro-Taliban militants in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan.
The militants attacked ANP leader Malik Yaqoob's vehicle in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), a Press TV correspondent reported on Monday.
Yaqoob, also a leader of secular Pashtun party in the NWFP, was a staunch supporter of the military operations against the Taliban and was against holding talks with militants.
He is the third anti-Taliban leader to be killed in the northwest since early November.
Pro-Taliban militants had earlier assassinated anti-extremist leaders in Peshawar and Bajaur.
Meanwhile, a blast targeting a police station in Peshawar left four Pakistanis killed and 26 others injured on Monday.
The blast took place in a crowded area of Badhaber, a suburb of Peshawar. The explosion leveled a mosque, damaged a boys' school, and caused a wall of the police station to collapse.
Political leader killed in Pakistan
