The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for the May 6 suicide bombing at an election rally for members of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam religious party, Reuters reported.

At least 15 people were killed in an explosion at an election rally in Pakistan's Kurram Agency on May 6, officials said, Reuters reported.

Sadiq Zaman Khattak, a parliamentary candidate for Pakistan's secular Awami National Party in upcoming elections, was shot and killed along with his three-year-old son in Karachi on May 3, a police spokesman said, AFP reported.

One Afghan border guard was killed and two Pakistani troops were injured in cross-border shelling overnight May 1, sources said May 2, AFP and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.

A suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, killed at least eight individuals, including an Afghan official, authorities said April 29, AP reported.

Two explosions outside the campaign offices of two parliamentary candidates killed nine people and injured at least 30 more in northwest Pakistan on April 28, Press Trust of India reported.

A bomb killed at least six people and injured more than a dozen when it exploded April 26 outside the election office of Bashir Jan, a candidate for the secular Awami National Party, in Karachi's western Mominabad neighborhood, AFP reported.