Maulana Hami ul Haq, son of Maulana Samiul Haq, said that his father was resting in his room when he was attacked with a knife.
“My father could not join the protest in Islamabad due to road blockage. He returned to his house and was resting in his room,” he said.
“His drive went out for half an hour and when he returned, he found Maulana lying in a pool of blood,” he said.
Earlier, some reports suggested that gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on Samiul Haq’s vehicle and sped away.
The JUI-S chief was being shifted to DHQ Hospital before he succumbed to his wounds.
Media reports said that a security guard of the deceased cleric was critically wounded.
Maulana Samiul Haq was a religious scholar and former Senator. He was the member of the Senate of Pakistan from 1985 to 1991 and again from 1991 to 1997.
He was regarded as “Father of the Taliban” and had close ties to Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
Samiul Haq was currently the chancellor of Darul Uloom Haqqania, a Deobandi Islamic seminary which is the alma mater of many prominent Taliban members. Haq served as chairman of the Difa-e-Pakistan Council and is the leader of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam political party, known as JUI-S.
His party has been an ally of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). The PTI also gave him a ticket for the 2018 Senate election, but he could not be elected to the upper house.
The JUI-S chief headed a committee formed for peace talks with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in 2014.
Samiul Haq was also a founding member of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal.
He also served as a member of the Senate. He formed Muttahida Deeni Mahaz (United Religious Front), an alliance of relatively small religio-political parties, to participate in Pakistani general election, 2013.
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