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.

Thousands of mourners attended a funeral on Saturday for a Taliban-linked cleric slain in a suicide bomb attack on a seminary in Pakistan’s northwest. Hamidul Haq, the head of Jamia Haqqania seminary,

The death toll in the suicide blast at the Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary, often dubbed by the Western media as 'Jihad University', in the Nowshera district in Pakistan has touched six, media reports said on Saturday.