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Five people died while several sustained grievous injuries after a suicide bomb exploded in a pro-Taliban seminary or religious school in northwestern Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday.

The incident took place ahead of Ramzan in Akkora Khattak, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said local police, adding the investigation is underway to rescue the injured.

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According to the news agency Associated Press, “No group has immediately claimed responsibility for the attack inside Jamia Haqqania, a seminary that is known for links with the Afghan Taliban.” Around 4000 students were taking free education, clothes, and food in the school (Madrassa).

Mullah Omar, later founder of the Taliban who led an insurgency against the United States and NATO in Afghanistan, also graduated from this school. The school has been home for thousands of leaders.

According to HT, the Taliban surged back to power in Kabul in August 2021 after foreign forces withdrew and the former government collapsed. Militancy has since rebounded in the border regions with Afghanistan.

Last year was the deadliest in a decade for Pakistan, with a surge in attacks that killed more than 1,600 people, according to Islamabad-based analysis group the Center for Research and Security Studies.
Islamabad accuses Kabul’s rulers of failing to root out militants sheltering on Afghan soil as they prepare to stage assaults on Pakistan, a charge the Taliban government denies.

Taliban Condemn Attack:

“We strongly condemn the attack; we know them as the enemies of the religion; we have tried our best to eliminate them successfully,” said Afghan interior ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani, while blaming the attack that has not yet been claimed on the Islamic State group.