Maulana Sami ul Haq (18 December 1937 – 2 November 2018) was a Pakistani religious scholar and Senator.He was member of the Senate of Pakistan from 1985 to 1991 and again from 1991 to 1997.
Career
Sami-ul-Haq was regarded as the "Father of the Taliban" because of the relationship between a student (Talib) and Teacher is a relationship of Father and Child, and had close ties to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. Sami ul Haq was the chancellor of Darul Uloom Haqqania, a Deobandi Islamic seminary which is the alma mater of many prominent Taliban members. Haq served as chairman of the Difa-e-Pakistan Council and was the leader of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam political party, known as JUI-S. Sami ul-Haq was also a founding member of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal.
He had 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.
Early life
Sami ul Haq was born on 18 December 1937 in Akora Khattak, North-West Frontier Province of British India (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan). His father was Moulana Abdul Haq. He began his education in 1366 AH (1946 or 1947 CE) at Darul Uloom Haqqania, which was founded by his father. There he studied fiqh, usul al-fiqh, Arabic literature, logic, Arabic grammar (sarf and nahw), tafsir, and Hadith. He was well versed in Arabic but also used Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, and the regional language of Pashto. Haq stated that the US Ambassador to Pakistan, Richard G. Olson, visited him in July 2013 to discuss the situation of the region. Haq openly promoted the Taliban re-take of Afghanistan. He stated: "Give them just one year and they will make the whole of Afghanistan happy... The whole of Afghanistan will be with them ... Once the Americans leave, all of this will happen within a year... As long as they are there, Afghans will have to fight for their freedom," Haq said. "It's a war for freedom. It will not stop until outsiders leave."
Fatwa
After Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan called polio vaccination un-Islamic, forcing people to stop inoculating their children, on 9 December 2013 Maulana Sami ul Haq issued a fatwa in favour of polio vaccination. The fatwa says "vaccination against deadly diseases is helpful in their prevention according to research conducted by renowned medical specialists. It adds that the vaccines used against these diseases are in no way harmful".
Death
On 2 November 2018, Sami-ul-Haq was assassinated at his residence in Bahria town, Rawalpindi. He was stabbed multiple times. According to his guard, he had intended to join the ongoing procession in Islamabad, but he could not join it due to road blockage.
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