ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the terrorist group’s media affiliate Amaaq News. The group said it was part of its ongoing conflict against democracy, which it views as hostile to the principles of “true Islam” and in opposition to its “divine law.” Local police said the attacker detonated explosives near the convention’s stage. More than 100 were injured, 17 critically, in the attack targeting members of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) party, who had gathered in the town of Khar, Bajaur district, close to the border with Afghanistan. Shaukat Abbas, deputy inspector general of police, said 12 of those who died were under the age of 12. At least 54 people died after a suicide bomber attacked a political convention organized by an Islamist party in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, police said.
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