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Abdulaziz Haqqani (Pashto: عبدالعزيز حقاني, romanized: Abd-ul-’Azīz Haqqānī, pronounced [(ʔ)abdulaˈziz haqˈqɑni]; born c. 1987 – c. 1989), also known as Aziz Haqqani (Pashto: عزيز حقاني), [1] is an Afghan senior member of the Haqqani network, one of the sons of its former leader Jalaluddin Haqqani, and deputy to his brother Sirajuddin Haqqani.
Jalaluddin Haqqani (Pashto: جلال الدين حقاني, romanized: Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥaqqānī) (1939 – 3 September 2018) [4] [5] was an Afghan insurgent commander who founded the Haqqani network, an insurgent group who fought in guerilla warfare against US-led NATO forces and the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan government that they supported.
Sirajuddin Haqqani is the son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, a Pashtun mujahid and military leader of pro-Taliban forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan.. Born in December 1979, Sirajuddin, who has brothers from both of his father's wives (Jalaluddin having also married an Arab woman whose children live with her in the United Arab Emirates) grew up in Pakistan.
Haqqani was the brother of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the late founder of the notorious Haqqani network. The closely affiliated group was responsible for some of the most violent attacks during the ...
The Haqqani network was founded in 1970 [25] by Jalaluddin Haqqani, a fundamentalist of the Zadran tribe, who fought for Yunus Khalis's mujahideen faction against the Soviets in the 1980s. Jalaluddin Haqqani died in 2018 and his son Sirajuddin Haqqani now leads the group. [26]
He continued to receive the allegiance of prominent pro-Taliban military leaders in the region, including Jalaluddin Haqqani. According to sources, he lived somewhere in Karachi for a time, where he worked as a potato trader to escape detection; a city where he had lived in already and visited for many years before the group's emergence in the ...
Two professors from the American University of Afghanistan — an American and an Australian — will be released by the Taliban as part of a prisoner swap, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced ...
Anas is a son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, a Pashtun mujahid and military leader of pro-Taliban forces in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Through his Pashtun mother, his only surviving brothers are Sirajuddin Haqqani and Abdulaziz Haqqani, while his father’s second wife is an Arab from the UAE whose children live with her in her home country. [5]