Bajaur: Unknown attackers shot dead a local religious leader  Maulana Azizullah Tahiri in Khar bazaar area of Pakistan's Bajaur district on Thursday, media reports said.

Maulana Azizullah, a resident of Shenki Alizo area, was on way to his bookshop when unidentified attackers opened fire on him at Khar bazaar’s main chowk at about 10am, district police officer Shaukat Ali told this correspondent, reports Dawn News.

According to Rescue 1122 officials, the 42-year-old religious leader who was also a member of Jamaat Ashaat-o-Touheed wa Sunnah, was critically injured and died in the DHQ hospital, the newspaper reported.

Activists belonging to different political parties and religious groups  at the hospital’s car parking area and staged a protest against the incident after the doctors pronounced the person as dead.

JUI-F district chief Maulana Abdur Rasheed, Mufti Tariq Jameel and others called the incident a failure of police to ensure security of local residents.