Taliban killed their "father" Maulana Samiul Haq at home

"The father of the Taliban", the prominent Pakistani Maulana Sami ul Haq, according to statements by his family and the police, was killed in his hometown of Rawalpindi.

Hamidul Haq, Haq's son, said that his father was alone in his room when he was attacked by an badailant, who escaped without being noticed. "My father was martyred, he was alone at home, his guard was out a few minutes before the attack and on his return, he saw my father in critical condition," he told reporters. .

However, there are conflicting reports about how he was killed. Initially, there was talk of killing with a shot. Haq's nephew, Mohammad Bilal, told Reuters that his uncle had been found shot and stabbed in a house he owned in a luxury area on the outskirts of Islamabad. "When the attackers entered his house, they started by hitting Mullah Sami ul-Haq with knives and daggers and then shooting him," he said.

Now the police are investigating why his bodyguard and the driver were not there to defend him at the time of the attack.

Haq, eighty-one, had taught Islamic fundamentalism to some leaders of the Afghan Islamist movement (he had close ties to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar) and had hosted a seminar for decades in north-west Pakistan. (Darul Uloom) Haqqania, located in the Pakistani province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, near the Afghan border), was transported to a nearby hospital but died shortly thereafter.

The people, in front of Rawalpindi Hospital, went to Haq waiting to receive the body of the religious. Shortly after his death, dozens of Haq supporters demonstrated, damaging shops and vehicles in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The Haq family asked their followers to "stay in peace".

Defenders of Pakistani religions were on the front line during protest protests after the Supreme Court's decision to absolve false blasphemy accusers, Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian known around the world.

A scholar of Islamic religion, widely acclaimed by radical Islamists, Haq was a member of the Pakistani Senate from 1985 to 1991, and from 1991 to 1997. He was at the head of his faction in the Jamiat-e party. Ulema Islam (Jui) and founding member of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal.

Pakistani President Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Imran Khan condemned the killing of Haq. "Today, we have lost a great scholar and religious leader," Khan said in a statement issued in China, where he is making an official visit.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said that "the Afghan people will never forget Haq's services for him" and that his killers are "enemies of Islam". Fears are now feared at the funeral that will be held Saturday, November 3 at Akora Khattak.