A suicide bomber Friday hit a vehicle belonging to an Afghan Muslim scholar in northwest Pakistan, killing three people including the cleric's guard and driver, officials said. The bomber detonated his explosive jacket close to Haji Hayatullah's car as worshippers were leaving a mosque following Friday prayers in the city's congested Faqirabad neighbourhood, local police chief Liaquat Ali said.

Islamabad, May 23 (EFE).- At least 10 people, including 8 police officers, died and 13 were wounded in a car-bomb attack in the western city of Quetta, a Pakistani police officer told Efe on Thursday. The attack came early in the morning when several insurgents detonated by remote control a car loaded with explosives as a truck carrying security personnel passed by, the officer said. The attack occurred in Bhosa Mandi, a very populated part of the provincial capital of Baluchistan, and several cars and buildings were also damaged or destroyed by the blast.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb exploded near the seafront in Karachi on Tuesday likely targeting a van full of Chinese port workers, police said, a day before Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrives in the capital, Islamabad. No one was hurt. Karachi, the nuclear-armed country's key port, is home to 18 million people. It typically sees about a dozen murders a day, a combination of political killings, attacks by the Pakistan Taliban and sectarian militant groups, and street crime.

By Michael Georgy ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's military said on Thursday it will send tens of thousands of troops to polling stations and counting centers to prevent the Taliban from disrupting Saturday's election after the insurgent group's attacks in the campaign killed over 100 people. The election, already Pakistan's most violent, marks the first time that a civilian government will complete a full term and hand over to another administration.