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,

Prominent cleric and founder of the banned militant group Lashkar-i-Islam, Mufti Munir Shakir, succumbed to injuries sustained in a blast outside a mosque within the jurisdiction of the Armar police station in Peshawar.

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.