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Maulana Sami ul Haq ( ) is a Pakistani religious leader and a politician.1He is known for his close ties to the Taliban and has been referred to as the "Father of the Taliban".2He has also served as a member of the Senate of Pakistan .3Sami ul Haq is the chancellor of the Darul Uloom Haqqania , a Deobandi Islamic seminary which is the alma mater of several Taliban leaders. Politically he is the leader of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam political party, known as JUI-S .4
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Maulana Sami ul Haq ( , 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 has 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."Maulana Sami ul-Haq: Father of the Taliban" (audio) .Center for Strategic and International Studies .Maria Golovnina and Sheree Sardar .
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Sami ul Haq ( , Samī'u’l-Ḥaq ; 18 December 1937 – 2 November 2018) was a Pakistani religious scholar and senator .He was known as the Father of Taliban in Pakistan.He was the member of the Senate of Pakistan from 1985 to 1991 and again from 1991 to 1997.He was the son of Maulana Abdul-Haq and was involved in various religious activities like his father did.Public Broadcasting Service (US Public TV website) .
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Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar (1937–2018) Sami ul Haq ( , Samī'u’l-Ḥaq ; 18 December 1937 – 2 November 2018) was a Pakistani religious scholar and senator .He was known as the Father of Taliban for the role his seminary Darul Uloom Haqqania played in the graduation of most Taliban leaders and commanders, having close ties to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar .With his party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) , which split from Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) because Haq supported Zia-ul-Haq and his policies, he was a member of the Senate of Pakistan from 1985 to 1991 and again from 1991 to 1997.After his assassination in 2018 his son Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani became the chancellor of the seminary and the ameer or head of the political party. Public Broadcasting Service (US Public TV website) . Maria Golovnina and Sheree Sardar .Reuters News Agency website. 15 September 2013 .Haq said, alternating between Pakistan's official Urdu and his native Pashto language.In 1997, Sami ul-Haq received a phone call from Omar, the Taliban leader.The Taliban had been defeated in an attempt to capture Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan and Omar needed reinforcements."Mullah Omar personally rang me to request that I let these students go to Afghanistan on leave since they are needed there," ul-Haq was quoted as saying in Pakistan journalist Ahmed Rashid's book, Taliban.Ul-Haq agreed to help Omar and briefly shut down his school to help his students arrange passage through the Khyber Pass to Afghanistan.
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Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar (1937–2018) Sami ul Haq ( Urdu : مولانا سمیع الحق , Samī'u’l-Ḥaq ; 18 December 1937 – 2 November 2018) was a Pakistani religious scholar and senator . He was known as the Father of Taliban for the role his seminary Darul Uloom Haqqania played in the graduation of most Taliban leaders and commanders, having close ties to Taliban leader Mullah Omar . With his party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) , which split from Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) because Haq supported Zia-ul-Haq and his policies, he was a member of the Senate of Pakistan from 1985 to 1991 and again from 1991 to 1997. After his assassination in 2018 his son Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani became the chancellor of the seminary and the ameer or head of the political party. Public Broadcasting Service (US Public TV website) . Maria Golovnina and Sheree Sardar . Haq said, alternating between Pakistan's official Urdu and his native Pashto language. In 1997, Sami ul-Haq received a phone call from Omar, the Taliban leader. The Taliban had been defeated in an attempt to capture Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan and Omar needed reinforcements. "Mullah Omar personally rang me to request that I let these students go to Afghanistan on leave since they are needed there," ul-Haq was quoted as saying in Pakistan journalist Ahmed Rashid's book, Taliban. Ul-Haq agreed to help Omar and briefly shut down his school to help his students arrange passage through the Khyber Pass to Afghanistan.
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pakistani religious scholar and senator
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pakistani islamic scholar and politician
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