At least 10 people were killed on Saturday
as pro-Taliban militants attacked the residence of a member of parliament in
North-Western Frontier Province (NWFP), officials said.
Dozens of heavily-armed militants targeted the house of Waqar Ahmad Khan with
several rockets in Kabal area of the restive Swat valley.
Waqar was not in the house when the attack took place but his brother Iqbal
Khan died as did his two nephews. Seven bodyguards were also killed in the
raid, police said.
A spokesman of radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah, who is leading an armed
struggle for the enforcement of Taliban rule in Swat, accepted responsibility
for the assassinations.
Waqar is a member of the liberal and secular Awami National Party (ANP) that
leads the provincial government in NWFP.
An ANP spokesman Zahid Khan condemned the rocket attack. "This is an act
which stands in absolute violation of Islamic as well as local Pakhtun
traditions," he said, according to dpa.