Quetta - Nearly 20 rockets were fired into the hometown of Pakistan's education minister in the south-west of the country on Monday killing one person and wounding four, the minister said.
One of the rockets hit the home of a servant of Education Minister Zubaida Jalal, killing the servant's 14-year-old son and wounding four people, said Jalal, who was in the capital Islamabad at the time of the attack.
Jalal's, whose efforts to modernise Pakistan's education system have angered conservative Islamists who say she and President Pervez Musharraf have a pro-Western agenda, said the attackers wanted to intimidate her.
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