India, March 1 -- The death toll in the suicide blast at the Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary, often dubbed by the Western media as 'Jihad University', in the Nowshera district in Pakistan has touched six, media reports said on Saturday.

The deceased included Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani, son of Maulana Samiul Haq and chief of his faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-S).

Maulana Samiul Haq, a prominent cleric, was often described as the "father of the Taliban."

Local newspaper Dawn News reported that a suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body after Friday's prayer.

"Maulana Haq was leaving the seminary for his home after prayers when he was targeted by the suicide bomber," KP Police Chief Zulfiqar Hameed told Dawn.

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