A suspected suicide attacker exploded a bomb near a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar late on Saturday, killing at least 11 people, including the city police chief, and wounding 35, police said. Most of the victims were police and municipal officials who were clearing the route for a procession of Shi’ites.

Tribal elders in a deeply conservative district in Pakistan’s northwestern frontier warned women not to get involved in upcoming elections, threatening on Sunday to burn down the homes of any family that allows its women to vote.