A leading Pakistan lawmaker Yaqub Bizenjo was injured in a bomb blast in his house in the posh Khyaban-e-Rahat area of Karachi, which also wounded three others.
Police said the high-intensity blast occurred when the occupants of the house opened a parcel sent to the residence of the lawmaker, Geo TV reported.
Bizenjo is Pakistan's national assembly member from Baluchistan and is a scion of the Bizenjo family, one of the leading families of the province.
The parcel bomb caused damaged to the building and the injured were immediately rushed to the hospital. Minutes after the blast, police put a strong security cordon around the house.
Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik had recently circulated security notes to all the provinces warning that Taliban and other militant groups were planning attacks on politicians, ministers and other dignitaries.
