Eight people were killed and dozens injured by several bombs in Pakistan, officials said Wednesday, ahead of parliamentary elections set for May 11, dpa reported.
Businesses in the southern city of Karachi were shut after a bomb targeting an election office of the city's dominant Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party late Tuesday left two dead and 15 injured.
The Pakistani Taliban had last month threatened to attack secular political parties, including the MQM, for their opposition to the Islamist insurgency.
Also late Tuesday, a car suicide bomber killed six people at a checkpoint in the south-western town of Quetta, Captain Shumail Ahmad of the Frontier Corps paramilitary force told dpa by phone.
The banned Sunni extremist Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility, newspaper Dawn reported.