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Samiul Haq

Maulana
Sami ul Haq
مولانا سمیع الحق
chairman of Difa-e-Pakistan Council
Assumed office
October 2011
2nd Chancellor of Darul Uloom Haqqania
Assumed office
7 September 1988
Preceded by Abdul Haq
Pakistan Senator for North-West Frontier Province
In office
March 2003 – March 2009
February 1985 – March 1997
Member of Pakistan Majlis-e-Shoora
In office
1983–1985
Personal details
Born 18 December 1937
Akora Khattak, British India
Nationality Pakistani
Political party JUI-S
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
Alma mater Darul Uloom Haqqania
Occupation Islamic scholar, politician
Religion Sunni Islam (Deobandi)

Maulana Sami ul Haq (Urdu: مولانا سمیع الحق‎, Samī'u’l-Ḥaq; born 18 December 1937) is a Pakistani religious scholar and a politician. He is regarded as the "Father of the Taliban" and had close ties to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. Sami ul Haq is currently the chancellor of Darul Uloom Haqqania, a Deobandi Islamic seminary which is the alma mater of many prominent Taliban members. Haq serves 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. Sami ul-Haq is also a founding member of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal the creator of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, a religious organisation.

He has also served as a member of the Senate of Pakistan. He formed Mutahida Deeni Mahaz (United Religious Front), an alliance of relatively small religio-political parties, to participate in Pakistani general election, 2013. On 25 March 2013, he unveiled the electoral manifesto of the front, pledging that all high offices of the state, including the president, prime minister, chief justice and chiefs of armed forces, will be held only by Sunni Muslim men. It also talked of abolishing coeducation and training all adult Muslims for jihad.


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