An armed guard stands outside the house of Haroon Bilour, an Awami National Party (ANP) candidate for...
An armed guard stands outside the house of Haroon Bilour, an Awami National Party (ANP) candidate for the upcoming elections, in Peshawar May 2, 2013. Since April, the Pakistani Taliban have killed more than 70 people in attacks targeting three major political parties - the Awami National Party (ANP), the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM), preventing many of their most prominent candidates from openly campaigning. The Taliban say they are targeting "secular" parties and that elections only "serve the interests of infidels and enemies of Islam". Picture taken May 2, 2013. To match PAKISTAN-ELECTION/VIOLENCE REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS CIVIL UNREST)