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Mid of Pakistani politician Mian Iftikhar Hussain from the Awami National Party (ANP), looking at computer monitor showing a documentary of his only son who was gunned down by Taliban militants2. Close of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003ePeshawar - 17 April 2013 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Mid of Pakistani politician Mian Iftikhar Hussain from the Awami National Party (ANP), looking at computer monitor showing a documentary of his only son who was gunned down by Taliban militants\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close of Hussain listening to audio from documentary UPSOUND: (Pashto) \"I never knew the enemy could reach my home, my heart, my love would disappear in a grave.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid of Hussain looking at computer monitor, as his video election campaign message is played, UPSOUND: (Pashto) \"Vote for those who are sacrificing their lives to save you and your children from terrorists.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Pakistani politician:\u003cbr/\u003e\"When they (the Taliban) openly threaten some specific political parties that if they hold public rallies, they will attack them, it is pre-poll rigging. They (the Taliban) are using force, to stop the elections from going ahead. When there is no democracy in this country, it will be a great help to them to achieve success in their plans and targets.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close of photo showing Asfand Yar Wali, head of the Awami National Party\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Pakistani politician:\u003cbr/\u003e\"They (the Taliban) have one other option, and that is that they choose those parties which have soft corner for them (Taliban), they take the oath and become members of parliament.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Tilt-up banner of Awami National Party candidates to banner of Bashir Ahmad Bilour, who was targeted by the Taliban\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of ANP supporter tying banner to pole \u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid tracking shot of Maulana Abdul Jalil candidate of the pro-Taliban party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), campaigning with supporters UPSOUND \"Vote for Jalil\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of Jalil hugging shop keepers as supporters chant UPSOUND: \"Jamiat is alive and Allah is great\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Maulana Abdul Jalil, election candidate, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The terrorist is a terrorist, the word Taliban simply means a student in an Islamic school, he memorises the Holy Quran and teaches in the Madrassa. There is a difference between Taliban and terrorists. Taliban could be a university student or a Madrassa student. Most of these standing behind me are Taliban.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid of Jalil hugging and shaking hands with shopkeeper \u003cbr/\u003eKarachi - 16 April 2013\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party media centre, senior MQM leader Faisal Sabzwari in left foreground \u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of laptop screen as Sabzwari tweets information regarding his party and the elections \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Faisal Sabzwari, Senior leader, Muttahida Qaumi Movement:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are trying to take advantage of social media as well for our manifesto, to our sloganeering to our aims, objectives, past performance; the ideology of Mr. Husain Altaf Husain is (founder of MQM). Everything is preached and propagated through social media. And all of our office bearers and public representatives including myself, we are using it very frequently.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid of MQM party election's \"kites\", Photo of Altaf Husain on wall behind\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide exterior of MQM party headquarters in central Karachi\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close of computer screen at  Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) media centre showing the PPP's official website\u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid of a party volunteer working on computer \u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Abdul Habib Memon, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Candidate (Karachi) for the National Assembly:\u003cbr/\u003e\"They (terrorist groups/organisations) want to attack, kill Pakistan People's Party candidates. But we are not afraid of this threat. We have started using social media, using twitter and Facebook to run our election campaign.\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Various of PPP volunteers working on computers \u003cbr/\u003eModerate politicians from some of Pakistan's most violent areas are risking the threat of Taliban attacks to run in upcoming nationwide elections, but they are increasingly being forced to rely on social media, phone calls and even short documentaries that allow them to campaign from a distance.\u003cbr/\u003eAmong them is Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the Awami National Party (ANP) candidate whose only son was killed in a Taliban attack in 2010.\u003cbr/\u003eHussain who is campaigning for a provincial assembly seat on May 11 tears up as he watches the images of his son's grave in a documentary he has made for distribution in his constituency, the town of Pabbi, which is only about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Peshawar. \u003cbr/\u003eThe film chronicles his son's death and asks constituents to \"vote for those who are sacrificing their lives to save you and your children from terrorists.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHussain was himself attacked by a suicide bomber at his son's funeral in Pabbi. He survived, but seven other people were killed, including two of his close relatives.\u003cbr/\u003eThe video is a tactic Hussain has been forced to adopt because Taliban threats make it too dangerous for him to campaign there in person.\u003cbr/\u003eHe and other members of secular political parties specifically targeted by the Pakistani Taliban have also had to step up their use of social media, phone calls and advertisements, instead of relying on the large public rallies that are the normal hallmark of elections in the country, but are extremely vulnerable to attack.\u003cbr/\u003eThere is fear that the danger could skew election results in favour of hardline Islamic parties and others who refuse to speak out strongly against the Taliban. \u003cbr/\u003eTheir candidates are able to campaign with much less fear of being attacked, and the concern is this could lead to national and provincial governments inclined to take a softer position toward the militants.\u003cbr/\u003e\"When they (the Taliban) openly threaten some specific political parties that if they hold public rallies, they will attack them, it is pre-poll rigging,\" said Hussain, sitting in his heavily guarded office in the main northwest city of Peshawar.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Pakistani Taliban have been waging a bloody insurgency in Pakistan for years to enforce Islamic law in the country and to break the government's alliance with the United States in fighting militants. \u003cbr/\u003eThey have killed thousands of civilians and security personnel in scores of gun and bomb attacks.\u003cbr/\u003eThe group's main sanctuaries are in the rugged northwest along the Afghan border, including the semiautonomous tribal region and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where Hussain is running for re-election. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Taliban have also established a significant presence in the southern city of Karachi and have stepped up attacks there.\u003cbr/\u003eThe militant group issued audio and video messages last month warning people to stay away from rallies held by the ANP, and two other secular parties that have supported army offensives against the militants in the northwest: the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which led the most recent government, and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), which controls Karachi.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Taliban have followed through on their threats by carrying out at least 10 attacks against candidates and party workers, mainly those in the Awami National Party. \u003cbr/\u003eThe attacks have killed at least 18 people, including a candidate for the MQM. \u003cbr/\u003eMany other candidates have been wounded, including five from the ANP.\u003cbr/\u003eThe most serious of the recent attacks occurred Tuesday, when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an ANP meeting in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing 16 people. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Taliban said the target of the attack was Haroon Ahmad Bilour, whose father, a senior ANP leader, was killed in a suicide bombing in Peshawar in December. \u003cbr/\u003eHe escaped unscathed, but his uncle, Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, suffered minor injuries.\u003cbr/\u003eOnly hours before the attack, a candidate from one of the strongest Islamic parties, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), campaigned freely in his constituency in a different part of Peshawar. \u003cbr/\u003eHe bristled at any suggestion that the Taliban were terrorists and blamed attacks in the country on foreign agents seeking to \"malign religious leaders, all bearded people.\" \u003cbr/\u003eHe pointed out that the word Taliban simply means a student in an Islamic school saying \"there is a difference between the Taliban and terrorists\".\u003cbr/\u003eIt's not only the top Islamic parties like Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and Jamaat-e-Islami that seem to have been spared by the Taliban in the run-up to the election, but also more mainstream parties perceived to take a softer stance on militancy, such as the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), 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