Moderate Cleric Among 9 Killed in Pakistan Blasts
Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Students in the religious school run by Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi mourned after a bomber killed him in Lahore, Pakistan, on Friday. By WAQAR GILLANI and SABRINA TAVERNISE Published: June 12, 2009 LAHORE, Pakistan — Militants bombed mosques in two cities in Pakistan on Friday, killing at least nine people, including a leading Sunni cleric who was an outspoken critic of the Taliban . Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Akhtar Soomro/Reuters In Nowshera, Pakistan, at least three people were reported killed and 20 wounded in a bombing of a mosque. In Lahore, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside the religious complex run by the cleric, Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi, who had been vocal in his opposition to suicide attacks and other tactics used by the Taliban. The bomb seemed to be aimed at Mr. Naeemi, destroying his quarters near the entrance of the complex’s mosque. He was killed, along with at least five other people. The whi