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Show DAILY A2 HERALD Sunday, February 1 7, 2008 50 killed in Pakistan election rally suicide bombing ' A Lee Newspaper 3 Customer Service Established in 1873 Newsroom ToU THE 80144-254- 0 wwwJieraldextra.com Street address: 1555 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo, UT Send mail to: P.O. Box 717, Provo, UT 846030717 News Editors Randy Metro Editor Amie City Editor Angie Parkinson 7 aparkiraxiteraidexdacom Sports Editor Darnell Dickson 5 ddicksonheraldextra.com Business Editor Grace Leong Style Editor rwrightrteraldextra.com Wright aroseheraldexffa.com Rose gleongheraldextra.com dfoxheraldextra.com Doug Fox Editorial Page Editor JimTynen jtynenheraldextra.com 4 Senior managers President & Publisher Circulation Director Manager Advertising Craig cdennisheraldextra.com Dennis Stephen Kelsey Al skelseyheraldextra.com Christensen adiristensenheraloextra.com 7 Chief Financial Officer Mark Heintzelman Production Manager Larry Hatch 9 IT. 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Postmaster: Send address Daily & Sunday Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun & Holidays changes to The Daily Herald, P.O. Box 717, Provo, Utah 84603-0717- . Thursday Only IVor, Sat '. MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS 'Holiday delivery includes delivery the weeks of Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Pioneer Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. DAYS: FEB All before elections considered crucial to restoring democracy in Pakistan after eight years of military rule under President Pervez Musharraf. Recent opinion polls show the opposition poised for a landslide victory amid disenchantment Musharraf's rule. In addition to rising political discontent following Musharraf's decisions in the last year to impose emergency rule and purge the judiciary, he is battling a rising Islamic militancy, especially in the northwest. In another area along the border, a second car bombing ! contents Copyright 2008, 23-2- without written permission. Donate your newspapers to Newspaper in Education. me For more information 344-292- 1 r iU"- - " was littered with party flags . and shoes. In the northwest, suspected militants also bombed a polling station that badly damWALLY SANT ANA Associated Press aged the building but caused A supporter of the Pakistan People's Party listens to campaign no injuries. The government has despeeches during a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on ployed 81,000 soldiers to back Saturday. up 392,000 police assigned to protect voters, said military 37 people were killed and near a checkpoint killed two spokesman Maj. Gea Athar Abbas. civilians and wounded eight more than 90 wounded when Musharraf said Saturday a suicide bomber drove into a security personnel, said army crowd as they were preparing he was confident the elections spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar would be free and fair and, Abbas. That blast occurred to eat in the town of Parachi-nanear Swat, a former tourist hopefully, without violence. "We will have a stable, demAsked who could be behind destination where security forces have battled armed sup- the bombing, he said those ocratically elected government and with the stable, democraticleric "who want to derail the elecporters of a in recent months. tion process." cally elected government we The Dec. 27 assassination of will ensure a successful fight The candidate targeted in the first suicide bombing, Syed opposition leader Bhutto and against terrorism and extremia string of suicide bombings Riaz Hussain, was unharmed. sm," he said in a speech to diplomats and senior government He is backed by the opposition some targeting campaign officials that ran on state-ru- n PPP. rallies have been blamed ;., Pakistan Television. on The injured poured into a or Taliban-linke- d militants. Although Musharraf is not nearby hospital, many in critihe could face For some, the biggest fear is up for cal condition with severe burn' impeachment if the opposition wounds, doctors said. major violence between politis wins a cal parties if there are wideInterior Ministry spokesmajority in man Javed Iqbal Cheema said spread allegations of cheating. the legislature. r. n , two-third- Bush officials release U.N. audit ofworid coiruptioii legations of bribes paid for tsunami relief projects in In- donesia, of sexual harassment UNITED NATIONS in Gaza and a revelation that The g Bush administration has been official ran a a U.N. posting hundreds of highly presidential campaign while confidential U.N. audits and receiving a U.N. paycheck. The investigation reports on a U.S. pages also document a spree of alleged criminal activities, government Web site, openincluding a bribery scheme at ing the United Nations' inner workings and some of its more the airport in Pristina, Kosovo; colorful scandals to unusual gold trading by U.N. peacepublic scrutiny. keepers in Congo; and the theft and resale of food rations by Together, the nearly 500 documents and thousands of Ukrainian pilots serving the United Nations in Liberia. pages constitute a trove of Mark Wallace, the U.S. repUN. secrets stretching back over five years, including al resentative for U.N. manage . Dally Herald. Any reproduction or other use is strictly prohibited GOING ON VACATION! caU Saturday's attack appeared to be members of the opposition Pakistan People's Party, formerly led by the slain Benazir Bhutto. They had gathered at the home of the targeted candidate following the rally in a volatile tribal region bordering Afghanistan, said Mushtaq Hussain, an administrative official in the area. "Several of our party members are lying in a pool of blood," said Zafar Ali, a party supporter at the scene. The attack came two days Colum lynch Sunday Only Thur, Sun & Holidays BONUS elections. Most of the victims of : Home Delivery 375-510- paralition of ties boycotting the vote in the southwestern city of Quetta on Saturday. Seven people were injured. The demonstrators threw rocks at police, who responded with tear gas before arresting 50 activists for the violence, said police officer Raja Mohammed Ishtiaq. A truck and three motorcycles were burned in the melee, and the street day's crucial parliamentary Executive Editor & ASSOCIATED PRESS A ISLAMABAD, Pakistan suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a crowd following a rally for a candidate allied with the opposition, killing 37 people and heightening fears of Islamic militant violence during Mon- free 80(8803075 FAX Life Highlighting those tensions, hundreds of police surrounded and then clashed with more than 1,500 supporters of a co- Sadaqat Jan 375-510- THE WASHINGTON POST anti-dru- i been redacted by the United Nations, but the identities are easily deciphered. The documents' disclosure has shed light on some major U.N. mysteries, including the abrupt retirement of Jacques Paul Klein, a former American diplomat who served as the U.N. special representative in Liberia until e docuApril 2005. A ment labeled "strictly confidential" accuses Klein of an improper relationship with a local woman suspected of passing on secrets to Charles Taylor, the ormer Liberian president now on trial for war crimes. two-pag- jJ lUlah Comity 1&U- - ment and reform, has posted 477 documents, following the lead of his former boss, John Bolton, who as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations began releasing documents as early as 2006. "I didn't see any reason why UN. audit documents shouldn't be made public," recalled Bolton, comparing the situation to the Government Accountability Office's publication of reports on U.S. government activities. "I didn't think my job was to cover up for the United Nations." Most of the names of those targeted in the reports have L X ,o flft IfL 30-ye- ar " o U APR fixed rate mortgage Zero points 30-da- y rate lock your Adjustable Rate Mortgage payment going up? Is PUBLISHING: Lock in a fixed rate mortgage from KeyBank. 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