At least nine people including senior provincial minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour were killed and over 18 others were injured in a suicide blast that hit a political gathering in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar on Saturday evening. The 70-year-old minister was a leader of Awami National Party ( ANP), got seriously wounded when a suicide bomber targeted him after the conclusion of an ANP's political gathering in Peshawar. Doctors said that Bilour could not survive as he received serious bomb injuries near his heart.The other killed people included Bilour's personal secretary and a senior police officer who was guarding political leaders in the gathering. Following the blast, Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.