Noor Muhammad

Maulana Noor Muhammad (1936 – 23 August 2010) (Urdu: مولانا نور محمد شہید) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, writer and politician, who served as a member of the 11th National Assembly of Pakistan from 1997 to 1999.

On 23 August 2010, Maulana Noor Mohammad was martyred in Jamia Masjid Wana, Waziristan afternoon prayers in the blessed month of Ramadan by a teenage suicide bomber along with more than thirty companions. He was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Wana and more than 10,000 people attended his funeral prayers. Then President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister of Pakistan Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, Defence Minister of Pakistan Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar including Leader of the Opposition Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Nawaz Sharif, Altaf Hussain, Imran Khan and other national leaders strongly condemned the attack and expressed deep shock and grief over the tragic incident.

In 1997 he was elected to the National Assembly as an independent and later joined the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (JUI-F).

In 1956, he assumed teaching and oratory duties in Wana, Waziristan, in support of his late father. In 1961, he started the construction of the Jama Masjid Wana, South Waziristan. The construction of the mosque was completed in ten years and at the same time, he laid the foundation of Jamia Darul Uloom Waziristan.

Noor Muhammad was born in 1936 in Bizenkhel, Bannu District, to Maulvi Nazar Muhammad Ibn Maulvi Ahmad Noor in a well-known intellectual and spiritual family. He belongs to the Ahmadzai tribe of Wazir. He received his early education from his late father at home and in 1951 he entered Jamia Qasim Ul Uloom, Multan. In the same year, Mufti Mahmood joined Jamia Qasim Ul Uloom as its president. He studied there for five years under the supervision of Mufti Mahmood.