Summary The house of Mian Iftikhar Hussain was near the site of blast.
NOWSHERA (Dunya News) – At least seven people were injured in a blast near the residence of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa s Information Minister Mian Iftikhar.
The blast hit in the town of Pabbi, just 60 metres (200 feet) from the home of Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Hussain, a member of the province s ruling Awami National Party (ANP) whose son was killed by militants, was 25 kilometres (15 miles) away in Peshawar at the time of the blast, police said.
"It is a terrorism incident," a police official said.
The bomb was hidden in a pile of gravel being used to build a roadside drain, and television footage showed the blast had left a sizeable crater.
