Pakistan minister survives attack
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The chief minister of the western Pakistani province of Baluchistan has survived an assassination attempt in Khuzdar, government officials told CNN.
Chief Minister Jam Mohammad Yousaaf, a member of President Pervez Musharraf's ruling party, was not hurt in Monday's attack, the officials said.
A policeman was killed and two others were wounded, however.
On Sunday, gunmen opened fire on shoppers in a Khuzdar market, killing six people, five of them Pakistani soldiers.
Officials said they have not received a claim of responsibility for either attack.
A group calling itself the Islamabouli Brigades of al Qaeda claimed responsibility Saturday for a bomb attack on Shauket Aziz, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's hand-picked choice for the next prime minister.
Aziz survived, but the suicide attack, in Fateh Jang about 72 kilometers (45 miles) north of Islamabad, killed nine people and wounded 25.
The group warned Pakistan to stop cooperating with the United States or face more attacks.
The claim of responsibility said: "One of our blessed battalions tried to hunt a head of one of the American infidels in Pakistan while he was returning from Fateh Jang, but God wanted him to live."
It said the attack "will be followed by a series of painful strikes if you don't stop complying to the wicked (President) Bush's orders.
"We will give you the chance to stop these actions. Otherwise, we will behave in a different way in Pakistan and turn it into a bloody war against you and whoever supports your policies.
"This is our last warning to you if you don't comply. We will have a different answer to you. Our brigades will talk to you in the language of blood in the coming days -- the language you understand very well."
-- CNN producer Syed Mohsin Naqvi in Islamabad contributed to this story
