Munir Shakir

Munir Shakir (Pashto/; 4 April 1969 - 15 March 2025) was a Pashtun Islamic scholar and former militant leader, who was the founder of Lashkar-e-Islam and a strong critic of state oppression and injustices against Pashtuns.

In December 2024, Shakir, along with Mufti Kifayatullah Swati, led a delegation of the Pashtun Jirga to Kurram District to mediate a Shia–Sunni conflict between two groups of Pashtun tribes.

Shakir was assassinated by a bomb planted outside a Peshawar mosque on 15 March 2025.

Radio ministry Shakir was born in 1969.

Shakir worked in Kurram Agency until 2004.

Enmity with Pir Saifur Rahman In 2005, Akhundzada Saif-ur-Rahman Mubarak, a supporter of the more moderate Hanafi school of Islam, established his own FM pirate radio station to compete with Shakir's station. Rivalry between the two clerics increased, causing tribal elders to denounce the two in December 2005 for fomenting sectarian tension. Both clerics then went into hiding, with Shakir handing control of his radio station and Lashkar-e-Islam organization to Mangal Bagh. The hostilities peaked around 29 March 2006, when "hundreds" of Shakir's followers gathered in the Badshahkili neighborhood of Bara tehsil to attack Rahman's followers.

Role in Lashkar-e-Islam In 2004, Shakir founded the organization Lashkar-e-Islam. Shortly thereafter, he was ejected from Bara Tehsil, and turned over control of the organization to local driver Mangal Bagh. In 2008, the organization was banned.

Later activities Shakir held a position with Ishaat-e-Tauheed, but disassociated from the group six to seven years before he died. He embraced the teachings of the Ahl-e-Quran movement and wrote books in which he argued that fabricated hadiths altered the true essence of Islam and that the Quran alone defined the true teachings of Islam. At the Pashtun National Jirga, he delivered a speech that condemned the Pakistani government's role in regional conflicts.

Assassination Shakir was killed in a bombing outside a mosque in Ormur, Peshawar, on 15 March 2025.