Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s contractorism department (CTD) announced on Saturday a monetary reward for information about an unidentified suicide terrorist, whom he had reserved in a case of terrorism a day for a deadly attack in a seminar in the District of Nowshera.
Maulana Hamidul Haqqani, son of Maulana Samiul Haq and head of her own faction of Jamiat Ulema-iislam (JUI-S), was among six people who perished in the suicidal attack in the Darul Ulom Haqqania yesterday.
Another 18 people were injured when the suicide bomber detonated the explosives tied to their body after the congregation of sentences on Friday.
The first information report (FIR), a copy of which is available with Dawn.comHe was registered yesterday in the complaint of Haqqani, Mauula Abdulhaq Sani, who accompanied his father and was among the injured.
He was filed at the Police Station of the Mardan Region of CTD at 4:45 pm, with the explosion time declared as the 2 pm
The FIR invoked section 7 (punishment for acts of terrorism) of the 1997 Anti-Terrorism Law, as well as sections 302 (Qatl-I-Amd or intentional murder), 324 (murder attempt) and 427 (mischief cause damage to the amount of RS50) of the Pakistan Criminal Code (PPC).
The complaint named five others who died in the attack and another nine, including Sani, who were among the 18 people injured.
According to the FIR, Sani and his father left the seminar to go home after Friday’s prayers, but when they reached the “small door” of the place, a “unique suicide bomber approached the father (Haqqani) and was exploded.”
Sani said the explosion resulted in the death of the six people, as well as other wounds, including him. He added that there were seminar students and teachers present at the time of the incident.
Remembering that the bomber had murdered those named in the FIR and spread the fear among the people, Sani declared that measures were taken against the unknown attacker under the aforementioned laws.
Today early, the funeral prayers for Mauna Hamidul Haqqani, the murdered chief of Jui-S, were carried out in the same seminar that was attacked yesterday.
The images of the funeral, which was held at 11 am, showed hundreds of people who crowd an inner hall and the exteriors of Darul Ulom Haqqania.
In a related development, the KP CTD said today that it has published an image of the alleged suicide terrorist and announced a reward of RS0.5 million for anyone who provides precise information about him to the police.
In a statement, the KP police assured the public that the informant’s name will not be revealed. Provided the following numbers for contact: 0315-9135456 and 091-9212591.
An official report shared by the hospital director said that six people were killed in yesterday’s explosion, and two were declared “dead upon arrival.” According to the report, an 11 -year -old boy was also among the 15 injured to the hospital.
“Maulana Haq left the seminar for her home after prayers when she was attacked by the terrorist suicide,” said the inspector general of KP (IG) Zulfiqar Hameed Sunrise.
Three police personnel are also among the injured, Hameed had said, adding that the staff was deployed to provide security to Haqqani.
The eyewitnesses had said that the suicide terrorist had reached the door used by Haqqani to leave the mosque, and added that the explosion took place after the prayers, when the Maulana went out to go home.
“The suicide terrorist was dressed as a religious scholar. He arrived at the door just when the Mulana left the mosque and detonated the explosives, ”said Muhammad Mudassar, a local resident.
Former member of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007, Haqqani assumed the position of head of the party after his father, an influential religious scholar and a former senator, was stabbed in his residence in Rawalpindi in November 2018.
Often called ‘University of Jihad’ by the Western media, the Darul Ulom Haqqania tells the key Taliban figures among their students. Founded in 1947, the seminar is located about 60 km east of Peshawar in the Grand Trunk Road in Nowshera.
While the leadership of the seminar has maintained a low profile in recent times, his former head of Mulana Samiul Haq, was his most active and vocal leader, both in local geopolitics and cross -border, Vis to Vis Afghanistan. They often called him the “father of the Afghan Taliban”, since many of the key members of that dispensation were his students and protected.
Main figures of the Haqqani group, including his boss Jaluddin Haqqani, his children Sirajuddin Haqqani (the current interior minister of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan), Anas Haqqani and Ibrahim Haqqani, are all the graduates of the Darul Ulom Seminar, and use the monokio “Haqani” Akori. “Khattak.
