[7] Abdul Haq (Urdu: عبدالحق, Pashto: عبدالحق; 11 January 1912 – 7 September 1988) of Akora Khattak, Pakistan, sometimes referred to as Abdul Haq Akorwi was a Pashtun Islamic scholar and the founder, chancellor, and Shaykh al-Hadith of the Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Haqqania.
[10] After his assassination in 2018 his son Maulana Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani became the chancellor of the seminary and the ameer or head of the political party.
[12][13][14] Sami ul Haq was the chancellor of Darul Uloom Haqqania, a Deobandi Islamic seminary which is the alma mater of many prominent Taliban members.
[13][15] Haq served as chairman of the Difa-e-Pakistan Council and was the leader of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam political party, known as JUI-S.[16] Sami ul-Haq was also a founding member of a six-party religious alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal ahead of 2002 general election.
[19][20] He formed Muttahida Deeni Mahaz (United Religious Front), an alliance of relatively small religio-political parties, to participate in the 2013 general election.
The funeral prayer was offered at the Khushal Khan Degree College and led by his son Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani.
They also shed light on various aspects of Maulana Samiul Haq's life and paid tribute to his services he rendered for Pakistan and Religion.
[32] With a boarding school and a high school with thousands of students, as well as 12 affiliated smaller madrassas, offering an eight-year Master of Arts in Islamic studies followed by a PhD after two additional years, journalist Ahmed Rashid, who calls it the most popular madrassa in northern Pakistan, also notes its strict selection process : in February 1999, out of 15,000 applicants only 400 new places were offered, while there are reserved places for 400 Afghan students as well.
[33] The seminary is known for producing graduates who went on to become Islamist insurgents in Afghanistan, firstly mujahideen who fought against the Soviet Union in the Soviet–Afghan War, and later members of the Taliban, including senior leaders.