Suicide bombing inside Islamic seminary in Nowshera district

A rescue worker is surveying the scene after a suicide bomb blast at the Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary in Akora Khattak, Nowshera district, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, on February 28, 2025. A suicide bombing at the Islamic seminary is killing at least four people, including Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani, the chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S), following Friday prayers, the police are saying. The seminary, founded by Maulana Samiul Haq, known as the 'spiritual father of the Taliban', is a prominent institution for religious education, attracting students from across Pakistan and beyond.