Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani
Hamid ul Haq Haqqani was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and politician, who served as a member of the 12th National Assembly of Pakistan from 16 November 2002 until 10 October 2007, when he resigned in protest.
He became chief of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) party after his father Sami ul Haq's assassination in 2018.
He was assassinated in a suicide bombing at Darul Uloom Haqqania.
Background
Haqqani was born on 26 May 1968 in Akora Khattak, a town in the Nowshera District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He was Sami-ul-Haq's second son from his first wife.Haqqani received religious and school education from his grandfather, Abdul Haq Akorwi, while attending Haqqania High School, a school located inside the premises of the Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary. There he completed his Dars-i Nizami and became a scholar of the Hadith and the Quran.
He later enrolled in Nowshera Degree College, receiving a Bachelor’s in Islamic Studies before obtaining a master's degree in theology from Punjab University in the late 1980s.
Political career
Haqqani joined and became secretary-general of the student wing of JUI, Jamiat Talba-e-Islam, in 1985. He was later appointed vice-emir of JUI by the group's shura members in part due to his "prudence in political and religious affairs."During the 2002 general election, Haqqani was elected to the 12th National Assembly of Pakistan on the ticket of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal coalition, beating Pakistan People's Party candidate Naseerullah Babar. He served as the representative of the NA-6 Nowshera-I seat from 2002 until 2007.