Peshawar: Mufti Munir Shakir, the founder of the outlawed terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Islam, has been killed in a bomb blast at the door of a mosque in this city under Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Three others were injured in th blast in the Kachori neighbourhood mosque where they had gathered to offer prayers.
Mufti Munir Shakir was the apparent target of the Satursay bomb blast, The News reported on Sunday.
The police said that 600 grams of explosives were used in the blast which was planted in front of the mosque’s gate.
Shakir and three others wounded in the blast were rushed to the Lady Reading Hospital.
The spokesman for the LRH Mohammad Asim later told the media through a video message that Mufti Shakir succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.
Mufti Shakir, 56, had established Lashkar-e-Islam in Khyber district over two decades ago. The organisation was outlawed later.
According to the Global Terrorism Database, Lashkar-e-Islam claimed responsibility for or was allegedly responsible for at least 125 separate terrorist attacks as of December 2020. UNI
