Tag: Maulana Sami ul-Haq

  Akora Khattak (Pakistan), Nov 3 : Thousands of supporters and followers of Maulana Sami ul-Haq, an Islamic cleric and former senator who was more widely known as the "Father of Taliban", flocked to attend his funeral in Pakistan on Saturday. Sami ul-Haq, a leader of the political party Jamiat Ulma-e-Islam, was killed in the northern city of Rawalpindi on Friday, although there were conflicting versions of how and where he died. "He was resting in his room during Asr (prayer) time when his driver-cum-bodyguard went out for 15 minutes," his son Maulana...