Soldiers fighting the Taliban and its allies chant slogans on a hill in Mingora, the main town in Swat valley, Pakistan. Photo from Associated PressSuicide Bombers Strike Pakistan Mosque, Seminary -- Yahoo News/AP
LAHORE, Pakistan – Suicide bombers attacked a mosque and a religious school within minutes Friday in two Pakistani cities, leaving one of the country's most prominent anti-Taliban clerics dead in what authorities called a targeted killing.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for either blast, but relatives of Sarfraz Naeemi said he had received death threats recently after condemning suicide attacks as un-Islamic and the Taliban as murderers.
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