A suicide attack struck Darul Uloom Haqqania, South Asia’s biggest spiritual seminary, throughout Friday prayers in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The blast eliminated 5 individuals– consisting of the academy’s principal and popular spiritual leader, Maulana Hamid ul Haq Haqqani– and left lots hurt.
According to regional authorities, the surge happened as a big churchgoers was collected for prayer at the mosque within the seminary complex in Akora Khattak. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Inspector General of Authorities informed press reporters: “4 individuals have actually passed away, while 10 to 12 others have actually been hurt. Rescue and search groups have actually been dispatched.” He included, “Preliminary findings recommend that Maulana Hamid Ul Haq was the main target.”
Rescue sources reported that 20 of the most seriously injured were moved to Peshawar, and efforts continue to look for others who might be caught underneath the particles. Up until now, no group has actually declared duty for the attack.
Akora Khattak lies in Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, along the Grand Trunk (GT) Roadway, approximately 30 miles east of Peshawar and 62 miles west of Islamabad. Darul Uloom Haqqania, typically described as the “University of Jihad” throughout the Soviet-led intrusion of Afghanistan, played a substantial function in the Afghan resistance versus the Soviet Union.
Its previous head, Maulana Sami Ul Haq– commonly described in Western media as “the Dad of the Taliban”– was assassinated by unidentified aggressors at his house in Islamabad in November 2018. Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani, the victim these days’s suicide battle, was his child.
Amongst the academy’s noteworthy alumni is Afghan leader Jalal Uddin Haqqani, creator of the Haqqani Network. For many years, numerous Afghan fighters have actually travelled through this organization, consisting of members of the effective Haqqani household in contemporary Afghanistan.