PESHAWAR (AFP) – A suspected Taliban bomb attack targeted a former Pakistan provincial cabinet minister on Sunday, killing him and three other people in the country's restive northwest, police said.

The bomb exploded in Bagto village, about 10 kilometers (six miles) from the town of Hangu in an area with a history of sectarian clashes between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiite Muslims, and near the tribal belt.
“Four people, including Ghani-ur Rehman have died in the attack,” Hangu city police chief Abdul Rashid Khan told AFP.
“The other three are a bodyguard, his driver and a friend,” he added.
A controversial figure, Rehman was once irrigation minister in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and a former mayor of Hangu.