Pakistan's 'father of the Taliban' killed in knife attack
Source: The Guardian
The prominent Pakistani cleric Maulana Samiul Haq, known as the “father of the Taliban”, has been killed in a knife attack at his home in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Friday.
Haq’s son, Hamidul Haq, said his father was alone in his bedroom when he was attacked by an assailant, who escaped undetected. Yousaf Shah, Haq’s spokesman, said that neither the attacker nor their motive was yet known.
“My father has been martyred. He was alone at his home. His guard had gone out minutes before the attack and upon his return he saw my father in critical condition,” he told reporters. Police say Haq, 81, was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died.
A well-known religious scholar with a large following among radical Islamists, Haq was the head of his faction of the Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (JUI) party. Haq’s sprawling Haqqani seminary taught many of Afghanistan’s Taliban and thousands of other students a strict interpretation of Islam.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/02/pakistan-maulana-samiul-haq-father-of-the-taliban-cleric-killed-in-knife-attack
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