Dear all,

Here is another sad news for Labour Party Pakistan.

LPP senior activists Zahid Yousafzai,s elder brother Liaqat Ali was killed today in Oghi Mansehra bomb blast and firing of religious fanatics. He was working for World Vision whose office has been targeted by the terrorists.

Zahid told me just now that the religious fanatics stormed the office this morning, killing his brother on spot. Then they bombed the place and six including two women activists were killed. Liaqat Ali was working for World Vision since 2006.

Zahid Yousafzai is associated with LPP during his student life at University of Karachi since 1999. He has been a regular contributor of Weekly Mazdoor Jeddojuhd and has written extensively on different aspects of
Marxism.

Zahid told me this evening that they have just buried his brother and is a shocking news for the whole family. He says that religious fanatics were at the ngo office for over 30 minutes making sure that every one is dead. The Frontier force was only few yards away but they did not dare to safe the innocent workers of the ngo.

LPP Pukhtoonkhawa will take up the issue and chart out a strategy to fight the fanatics.

For condole, please call Zahid Yousafzai 03445399729

Here is a news printed by News International on the web.

Gunmen kill 5 NGO staff in Mansehra

Updated at: 1120 PST, Wednesday, March 10, 2010

MANSEHRA: Militants stormed a building used by a US-based charity in Pakistan on Wednesday, sparking heavy clashes with police and killing at least five people, police and an aid worker said. The gunmen attacked offices of World Vision near Oghi town, in Mansehra, a relatively peaceful district of the North West Frontier Province, where Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants have carried out multiple attacks.

Police said five people were killed, including two women, but an aid worker told media on condition of anonymity that six World Vision staff died and six were seriously wounded, with staff still trapped in the besieged building. “They opened fire and also exploded hand grenades,” senior police officer Waqar Ahmed told media by telephone.

“So far we have confirmation about the deaths of five people, including two women,” he said, giving no further details.

An aid worker confirmed that a group of militants had attacked the World Vision office early Wednesday, unleashing heavy gunfire and sparking a battle with police, who rushed to the site."Five staff from World Vision are dead, six are seriously injured.

More information is coming. The staff are trapped in the office," he said.