Aftab Khan Sherpao said it was the fourth attempt on his life.
AFP/Peshawar
A Pakistani policeman was killed and two others wounded on Thursday when a suicide bomber hit the convoy of a senior politician in the country's restive northwest.
Aftab Khan Sherpao, Pakistan's former interior minister and former minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, was attacked as he was returning from an event in the province.
"Policemen fired at the bomber when he moved towards the convoy but he blew himself up," Shafiullah Khan, a district police officer in Charsadda, told AFP.
Izharullah, an official at the local police station, confirmed the attack saying that the injured were taken to a government hospital in the area.
Aftab Sherpao, who has been attacked several times previously, said it was the fourth attempt on his life.
"I was the target of this attack. This is the fourth attack on my life. The policemen sacrificed themselves to save me," he said afterwards.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Pakistan army has been waging a major campaign against Taliban and other militant strongholds in the North Waziristan tribal area since June last year.
Most of the fighting is now concentrated in the tribal districts of North Waziristan and Khyber, which border Afghanistan.
