In pictures: Pakistan blasts kill cleric

A member of the Pakistani bomb disposal squad uses a metal detector following a suicide bomb attack at the Jamia Naeemia madrassa, an Islamic seminary in Lahore, on Friday

A suicide bomb attack at an Islamic seminary in Lahore has killed a prominent anti-Taliban cleric, Sarfraz Naeemi. That attack and a simultaneous blast in Nowshera, in the north-west of Pakistan, claimed six lives.

The body of Sarfraz Naeemi is taken out of the Jamia Naeemia madrassa on a stretcher following the suicide attack on Friday

Sarfraz Naeemi was outspoken in his condemnation of Taliban tactics such as suicide bombings. He openly supported the military operation in Swat.

Pakistani religious students mourn the death of Sarfraz Naeemi, killed by a suicide attacker in Lahore, Pakistan on Friday

Students at Naeemi's madrassa (seminary) mourned his loss. His sons said he had received death threats but had refused police protection.

People gathered in a seminary after a suicide attack which killed prominent Pakistani religious leader in Lahore, Pakistan on Friday

The madrassa's shattered windows testified to the force of the blast.

A Pakistani soldier stands on the rubble of a destroyed mosque following a suicide car bomb attack in the northwestern garrison town of Nowshera on Friday

At least four people died in Nowshera when an explosives-laden vehicle ploughed into a mosque during Friday prayers - causing the mosque roof to fall in. Scores were injured, and the local hospital appealed for blood.