PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A senior cleric and five other worshippers were killed on Friday in a suicide bomb attack at a pro-Taliban seminary in northwestern Pakistan ahead of the fasting month of Ramadan , police said.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A senior cleric and five other worshippers were killed on Friday in a suicide bomb attack at a pro-Taliban seminary in northwestern Pakistan ahead of the fasting month of Ramadan, police said.
Haq was son of the late Maulana Samiul Haq, who was considered a founding figure for both the Afghan and Pakistani branches of the Taliban. Many Afghan Taliban had studied at Haq's seminary over the past two decades.Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other leaders condemned the attack, which came ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which is expected to start either on Saturday or Sunday depending on the sighting of the crescent moon.
Zahir Shah, a worshipper, said that hundreds of people were leaving the mosque after offering prayers when he heard a powerful blast. He said Haq was returning to his home within the seminary accompanied by guards when the attack occurred. Separately, six militants were killed on Friday during a security operation in North Waziristan, a district in the restive northwest near the Afghan border, the military said in a statement.
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