<span style="color: #222222;">Prominent Pakistani cleric Maulana Samiul Haq, who was also known as the godfather of Taliban, was killed in a gun attack in the garrison city of Rawalpindi today, according to media reports.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">82-year-old Haq was the head of the Islamic seminary, Darul Uloom Haqqania, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Akora Khattak town and also the chief of the hardline political party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Sami (JUI-S), the Geo News reported. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He was killed by unidentified attackers in a house where he was staying, his son was quoted as saying by the report. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">JUI-S's Peshawar president also confirmed Haq's death following an assassination attempt in Rawalpindi.</span>