Anti-Taliban cleric killed in Pakistan

Agence France-Presse

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Religious scholar Sarfraz Naeemi, who had spoken out against Taliban suicide bombings, was killed in one of the attacks at a mosque in Lahore, which drew sharp condemnation from Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

Four people died and at least 90 others were wounded when an explosives-filled car ploughed into the wall of a mosque in the northwestern garrison town of Nowshera, police said, adding that the roof of the building had collapsed.

Naeemi had issued a fatwa (edict) against suicide bombings carried out by Taliban militants. The bombings are the latest in a string of attacks in Pakistan widely seen as revenge by the Taliban for a punishing military offensive launched against insurgents around Swat valley on April 26.