DERA GHAZIKHAN: Politicians from Taunsa Sharif tehsil have been receiving threatening calls since a suicide attack on political camp office of MNA Amjad Farooq Khan Khosa.

MNA Khosa survived the blast on Oct 14 that claimed seven lives and left two critically injured.

One of the injured, Pir Bashir, claims to have received death threats on social media.

Bashir is considered a close aide of MNA Khosa.

He said he would continue politics as a mark of resistance against terrorism.

Former MPA and chief of the Qaisrani tribe, Mir Badshah Qaisrani, also received threatening calls from a number said to be operating fromAfghanistan.

The district police had earlier told Badshah and his wife MPA Shamoona Qaisrani to take special security measures during their movement as well as at home.

Historically, the Qaisrani tribe has played a special role in defending the area from mercenaries hailing from Waziristan who looted Taunsa Sharif, Badshsah told Dawn.

District Police Officer Ghulam Mubashir Maikin told Dawn police had already warned all legislators concerned and political activists to take special security measures who were under threat from terrorists, first immediately after the suicide blast at slain home minister Shuja Khanzada`s house in Attock and then after the Taunsa blast.