Islamabad , Pakistan ( CNN ) -- For the second day in a row , a hardline Islamist politician escaped an assassination attempt in northwest Pakistan . Fazal Ur Rehman , the head of Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Islam , was headed to a rally in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province when a man walked up to his convoy and blew himself up , authorities said . The bast killed 12 people , including three policemen and two women , said Nisar Murrawat , the police chief of the Charsadda district where the attack took place . It also wounded 16 others , but Rehman said he was unharmed . Charsadda is 25 kilometers northeast of Peshawar , the capital of the province . A day earlier , 10 people , including two policemen , were killed when a suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up at another political rally where Rehman was scheduled to speak . Rehman said he has not received any threats nor does he know who is targeting him . Moulana Amjad Khan , a party spokesman , said the Thursday rally was the last in a series to protest against un-Islamic laws in the country , the influence of the United States and drone strikes . Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Islam was a former coalition partner of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party . Security forces have been battling an insurgency led by the Pakistani Taliban in the province , formerly known as the North West Frontier Province .
Rehman was travelling to a rally when a man blew himself up near the lawmaker 's convoy . The blast kills 15 and wounds 16 . He says he does not know who is after him . He was also the target of another bomb attack on Wednesday .