A spokesman says unknown gunmen have shot dead a leader of an outlawed Pakistani militant group in the country's volatile northwest. The attackers burst into the headquarters of the Vice and Virtue Movement in the Khyber tribal region on Wednesday morning and shot dead its leader Haji Namdar. Namdar's spokesman Munsaf Khan says supporters of the organization captured two suspects after the shooting, but it is too early to say who is behind the attack.
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More detail, from Pak Daily Times
The head of a local vigilante organisation was shot dead on Wednesday. Amr Bil Maroof Wa Nahi Anil Munkar chief Haji Namdar was delivering his routine sermon for his FM radio channel from a mosque in Bar Kambarkhel when an unidentified man shot and killed him. The attacker was captured by Namdar's supporters. The executive body of the organisation named Haji Hukam Khan as the new chief of the group. Namdar was laid to rest in Karawal. Media coverage of his funeral was not allowed due to security reasons.