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KHAR, Pakistan — A key anti-Taliban tribal leader was assassinated Friday in a roadside bombing, the latest in a series of attacks against pro-government militias in the Afghan border area of northwestern Pakistan.
Tribal elder Shahfur Khan was returning to his home in Badan village to receive guests after prayers marking the start of Eid al-Adha, the Muslim feast of sacrifice, when the roadside bomb exploded, killing him and wounding three other people, said local officials Jamil Khan and Abdul Malik.
Khan emerged as a militia leader in the Mamund area of the Bajur tribal region after his predecessor was killed with at least 14 other people in a suicide bombing last year.
