UN to evacuate children of staff as four die in Pakistan suicide attack

THE United Nations has ordered children of its international staff to leave Pakistan after raising its security level following a suicide attack on the Marriott hotel in the capital, a UN official said yesterday.

UN to evacuate children of staff  as four die in Pakistan suicide attack

The security alert came as a suicide bomber killed himself and three other people in an attack aimed at a prominent ethnic Pashtun politician, police said.

The politician, Asfandyar Wali Khan, leader of the Awami National Party (ANP), which is part of the ruling coalition government, was not hurt in the attack in the northwestern town of Charsadda, police said.

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