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India-Pakistan
Anti-Taliban cleric killed in Pakistan suicide bombing
2009-06-12
A prominent anti-Taliban Pakistani Muslim cleric was killed on Friday in a suicide bomb attack in the city of Lahore, police said. In another blast at around the same time, a suicide car-bomber set off explosives in an attack on a mosque in the northwestern town of Nowshera, killing at least three people, police said. The blasts came as Pakistani forces stepped up attacks on militants across the northwest after the U.S. House of Representatives approved tripling aid to Pakistan to about $1.5 billion a year for the next five years. The militants have responded with a series of bomb attacks.

Moderate cleric Sarfraz Naeemi was attacked at his office at his mosque complex after leading Friday prayers. "Unfortunately, Maulana Sarfraz Naeemi has been martyred," Lahore police chief Pervez Rathore told Reuters. The cleric's brother, Tajwar Naeemi, said seven people were wounded in the attack that killed his brother. "When I came out of the office a few people went in and the suicide bomber was probably among them," the brother said.

In Nowshera, in North West Frontier Province, three people were killed and more than 20 were wounded, police said.

Naeemi was an outspoken critic of suicide attacks which he said were un-Islamic. "The military must eliminate the Taliban once and for all," Naeemi told Reuters last month. "Otherwise they will capture the entire country which would be a big catastrophe."
Posted by:ryuge

#2  I was wondering how long this guy was going to last...
Posted by: Art ofWar   2009-06-12 12:49  

#1  But remember, it's wrong for Muslims to kill other Muslims ...
Posted by: Steve White   2009-06-12 12:47  

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