Religious scholar and founder of banned group Lashkar-i-Islam, Mufti Munir Shakir, was killed in a bomb blast on Saturday on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, ARY News reported citing police officials.

Mufti Munir Shakir, the founder of the banned group Lashkar-i-Islam, was killed in a bomb blast in Peshawar, Pakistan. An IED explosion injured four others, while Shakir succumbed to his injuries. The attack was targeted,

A blast at a seminary mosque in Peshawar's Urmur Bala village injured four, including a cleric, less than a day after an explosion at a mosque in South Waziristan. Rising attacks on religious institutions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan raise security concerns.