Four people, including an eminent clerk Mufti Munir Shakir, were injured in an explosion involving explosive materials in the jurisdiction of the Armar police station in Peshawer.
According to police, Mufti Munir Shakir, the founder of the militant group Lashkar-i-Islam, was injured in the left foot in the explosion. Others injured were identified as Khushhal, Abid and Syed Nabi.
All the injured were immediately transferred to Lady Reading hospital for an initial medical treatment.
Following the explosion, the police, as well as managers of the bombs elimination unit (BDU) and the Terrorism Department (CTD), quickly arrived on the scene and began to collect evidence.
The law enforcement organizations conduct surveys in the region, with new requests in progress to determine the nature and cause of the explosion.
Mufti Munir Shakir, a clerk of the Kurram agency, came to settle in Bara Tehsil of the Khyber agency in 2004 after being thrown from his hometown to encourage sectarian hatred. His arrival at the Khyber agency went unnoticed at the start.
He then launched a local radio station and again started to bring together supporters under his interpretation of online Islam. This time, his objective was a religious scholar in Barelvi, Pir Saifur Rehman, who had migrated from Afghanistan in the 1980s and now lived in the agency of Khyber, leading a seminar.
After a series of violent clashes between the two groups, in 2006, a Jirga was summoned who decided to expel the two clerics. While Pir Saifur Rehman respected the decision, Mufti Munir Shakir first resisted the expulsion but was forced to go by the inhabitants. He made Mangal Bagh, then a local carrier, his successor in the armed militia which became Lashkar-E-Islam.
In 2008, the militant group based in Bara, Lashkar-I-Islam, was prohibited.
