ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI) militant group head Mangal Baghhas been killed in a bomb blast in the Achin district of eastern Nangarharprovince in Afghanistan on Thursday.

“Mangal Bagh, the leader of Lashkar-e-Islam terrorist group, was killedalong with two of his comrades in a roadside bomb blast in the Bandar Daraarea of Achin district of Nangarhar Thursday morning,” provincial governorZiaulhaq Amarkhil wrote on his verified Twitter handle.

Bagh was involved in a number of terrorist activities in the area, saidZiaulhaq, who is also senior advisor to President Ashraf Ghani on politicaland public affairs. Bagh’s LeI group has been affiliated with the outlawedTehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan which is responsible for most terrorist violencein Pakistan.

Mangal Bagh, a truck cleaner-turned-warlord, held sway over Bara tehsil ofthe erstwhile Khyber Agency until June 2008 when his armed vigilantes wererouted in a security operation. Since then he has been on the run, mostlyoperating from southern Afghanistan where his loyalists have found safehavens.