Cleric involved in talks with Pakistani Taliban shot dead
Two bike-borne gunmen killed Maulana Muhammad Idrees, a prominent cleric of the Jamaat-ul-Islam who was involved in peace talks with the Taliban insurgent group Pakistanin Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, Reported by Rajshekar Jha.The Islamic State in Khorasan province claimed responsibility for the killing, which came amid a series of assassinations of JUI-F figures in Khyber and Khyber provinces. Balochistan. Idress, a former MLA from Charsadda, was shot dead on his way to Darul Uloom Utmanzai. The killing also cast a spotlight on the cleric’s past disagreements with Field Marshal Asim Munir.