Islamabad: Maulana Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani, son of late Taliban founder Maulana Sami ul Haq, was killed in a suicide attack at Darul Uloom Haqqania, a notorious madrassa in Nowshera district of Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A suicide bomber killed six worshippers during Friday prayers at an Islamic seminary in northwestern Pakistan known as a historic training ground for the Afghan Taliban, police and a government spokesman said.

A bomb exploded on Friday during prayers at an Islamic seminary in northwestern Pakistan known as a historic training ground for the Afghan Taliban, killing no fewer than six worshippers. The police reported that several others were wounded including the head of the religious school,

No group has immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed influential cleric Maulana Hamid ul-Haq.

A religious scholar is killed at the influential seminary. Does this signal a growing threat from the armed group ISKP?

A bomb blast at an Islamic seminary in northwestern Pakistan known as a historic training ground for the Afghan Taliban killed six worshipers during Friday prayers, police said.

Police in northwestern Pakistan said Friday a suicide bomber detonated himself during afternoon prayers at the Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary, killing at least six worshipers and wounding more than a dozen others.