Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani during a press conference in Kabul in June 2022One hour ago Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani, the refugee affairs minister of the Taliban government, died in a suicide attack on the ministry building in Kabul on Wednesday. There is also news of other people being killed in this attack but there is no clear information on the number of casualties. A senior official of the Taliban government has confirmed this in a conversation with BBC Pashto. After confirming Haqqani’s death, the spokesperson of the Information Ministry of the Taliban government has not said anything else to the media except his death. Has not taken responsibility for the attack. Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has expressed grief over Haqqani’s death.Members of the powerful Haqqani familyImage source, Getty ImagesImage captionThis is the third major attack on the group since the Taliban came to power again in 2021Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani Uncle of Sirajuddin Haqqani, Interior Minister of the Taliban government and a member of the Afghan Taliban. He was the brother of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the founder of the Haqqani network. He was considered one of the key figures of the Haqqani network. This is the third major attack on the group since the Taliban came to power again in August 2021. In March 2023, in Balkh province Governor Mohammad Dawood Wafa Muzamil was attacked. Three people, including Mohammad Dawood, were killed in that attack. The so-called Islamic State terrorist group took responsibility for that attack. Earlier in October 2022, four people died in an explosion in a mosque in the Taliban’s Home Ministry complex in Kabul. and 20 were injured. Who was Khalil-ur-Haqqani? Image source, Getty Images Image caption, in Kabul on August 21, 2021 Khalil Haqqani giving speech at Pul-e-Khishti after entry Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani was born in the year 1966 in Kandu village of Gard-e-Rawa district of Paktia province of Afghanistan. He is the son of Afghanistan’s powerful Interior Minister Sirajuddin. Haqqani’s uncle and one of the leading figures of the Haqqani branch of the Taliban Khalil was the brother of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the founder of the Haqqani network, who was one of the top commanders of the Mujahideen against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Khalil-ur-Rahman himself took part in the war against the Soviet Union. August At the very beginning of the establishment of the Taliban government in 2021, they were given the responsibility of refugees and people of Afghanistan returning to their country from foreign countries. The responsibility was handed over. During this period, the portfolios of many Taliban ministers were changed but Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani remained the Minister of Refugee Affairs till his death. In the last two years, Pakistan and Iran launched a campaign to send refugees from Afghanistan back to their country. Is. Since then he was trying to garner international help for those returning to their country. 50 lakh dollar reward Image source, Caption, America had announced a reward for the information about Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani. A reward of 5 million dollars (about Rs 37.5 crore) was fixed for providing information about the Haqqani network as a ‘foreign terrorist organization’ in America. The US government’s Rewards for Justice website states that Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani “has led the Taliban in Logar province of Afghanistan since 2010.” In a 2001 interview, Haqqani said that the US had His house was bombed, in which many people were killed, but he managed to escape from Kabul. In that interview, Khalil Haqqani had told that he was arrested in a joint operation between America and Pakistan. He said, “I was kept locked in a room for a year. My hands and legs were tied and my eyes were blindfolded.” Ur-Rehman Haqqani was released after four years of imprisonment in exchange for 350 Pakistani soldiers. This exchange of prisoners took place in Waziristan. Khalil-ur-Haqqani had said in an interview that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mehsud had carried out this entire operation to get him out of jail. In that interview he Said, “They took us to Wana within 48 hours. We were under strict instructions not to talk to each other. When we reached there, They removed our blindfolds. Then we were taken to a bridge and 32 of us were released in exchange for the release of the soldiers.” Was active in the border areas. When US forces withdrew from Afghanistan, Khalil Haqqani was one of the major Taliban leaders who entered Kabul. The Haqqani Network Image source, Getty Images Image caption The foundation of the Haqqani Network was laid by Jalaluddin Haqqani, who first fought with Soviet forces and later joined the Taliban. Khalil Haqqani came from a politically influential family in Afghanistan. His elder brother Jalaluddin Haqqani had formed his own powerful armed group which later became a part of the Taliban, but the separate identity of this group remained intact. Paktia province of Afghanistan was known more for its beauty than for Jalaluddin Haqqani, who was one of the most wanted extremists in the world. Jalaluddin Haqqani, who belonged to the Zadran clan, was once a hero for America and its allies, but later became a villain. Went. When the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan in 1979, Haqqani emerged as a Mujahideen who defeated the Soviet forces. At that time, the American intelligence agency CIA, through the Pakistani Army, was providing economic and financial support to Jalaluddin Haqqani and Mujahideen like him. Was providing strategic help. With the help of ISI, Haqqani network is recruiting experienced and skilled fighters in Afghanistan. A group was formed. But in the early 1990s, when the Soviet Union disintegrated and the Taliban emerged in Afghanistan, America and its allies distanced themselves from Haqqani. Even when Afghanistan had the Taliban on one side and Al-Qaeda on the other, the Haqqani network Had its own separate existence. He even served as a minister in the Taliban government but kept his organization separate. In recent times, there have been reports of tension in relations between the Haqqani network and the Taliban. Published by Collective Newsroom for BBC
