Mosque Blast in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Kills At Least 6 Persons
The explosion that took place at Darul Uloom Haqqania in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Nowshera district also injured 20. Friday prayers were being held at the mosque at the time of the blast.
Zulfiqar Hameed, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Inspector General of Police, told Geo TV that Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani has been killed in the attack. He said that Haqqani was the target of the blast that appeared to be a suicide attack.
Haqqani was a cleric and a politician who headed the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Sami). He was close to the Afghan Taliban and his father Maulana Samiul Haq, who was also assassinated in 2018, was called ‘Father of the Taliban’.
The family-run Darul Uloom Haqqania as one of Pakistan’s largest seminaries is known as one of the feeder institutions of the Afghan Taliban.
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Last year, Haqqani had a delegation of Pakistani clerics to Afghanistan to hold talks with Taliban leaders, which was dubbed as “religious diplomacy”. He said at the time that the visit was intended to resolve the mistrust between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
In a statement after the confirmation of Haqqani’s death, the Taliban in Afghanistan appeared to blame the attack on Daesh (ISIL or ISIS).
Source: firstpost.com
