ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Bomb blasts tore through two campaign events in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people, authorities said, as attacks ahead of Saturday’s national election continued against liberal politicians as well as a pro-Taliban Islamist party.
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About 100 people have been killed since April in violence against candidates and party supporters, according to media tallies. Some experts say the election — a landmark democratic achievement that is expected to bring the transition of one elected government to another — has turned out to be the bloodiest in the country’s history.
