Six people were killed on Friday in a suicide bombing at a pro- seminary in Akora Khattak in northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
At least another 15 people were injured in the attack, according to police.
What else do we know about the bombing?
The head of the Dar-ul-Uloom Haqqania seminary, Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani, was among those killed.
Authorities have said that Hamidul Haq appeared to have been the target of the bombing.
“Initial reports suggest the blast occurred after Friday prayers as people were gathering to greet Hamid ul Haq. It appears to be a suicide attack,” Abdul Rasheed, the district police chief, told the French AFP news agency.
No group has yet claimed the bombing.
and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi condemned the incident as a “terrorist attack.”
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police chief Zulfiqar Hameed told Pakistan’s Dawn daily that three police officers were injured in the attack.
Who was pro-Taliban cleric Hamidul Haq?
Besides running the Islamic seminary in Pakistan’s northwest, Hamidul Haq also headed the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan (S) Islamist party.
The cleric was the son of Maulana Samiul Haqq, who was known as the “father of the Taliban” for his role in teaching several senior members of the Taliban at the seminary.
Samiul Haqq was stabbed to death at his home in 2018.
The Dar-ul-Uloom Haqqania seminary teaches over 4,000 students.
The , graduated from the seminary. The network is responsible for some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan.
His son, Sirajuddin Haqqani, graduated from the same seminary and now serves as the Interior Minister for Taliban authorities in Afghanistan.
Afghan Taliban blame bombing on ‘IS’ group
Abdul Mateen Qani, the spokesman for the Taliban-run Interior Ministry in Kabul, blamed the attack in northwestern Pakistan on the so-called .
following the Taliban takeover.
In December, IS claimed responsibility for an , Khalil Ur Rahman Haqqani, who had also been a member of the Haqqani network.
The Taliban took control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, in August 2021. Islamabad has since accused the Afghan Taliban of doing too little to rein in the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group, which has .
Edited by: Rana Taha
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