Hamid Ul Haq

Hamid ul Haq Haqqani (; 26 May 1968 – 28 February 2025) 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. 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 (S), Jamiat Talba-e-Islam, in 1985.

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,

Assassination

On 28 February 2025, a suicide bomb attack occurred at Darul Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak, Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, following Friday prayers. The attack targeted Haqqani, who was among those killed. He was 56.