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The Haqqani network was founded by Khalil Haqqani's brother Jalaluddin Haqqani. In the mid-1990s they joined Mullah Omar's Taliban regime. [12] The UN determined that Khalil Haqqani engaged in fundraising activities on behalf of the Taliban and the Haqqani network and conducted international travel to obtain financial supporters. [12]
Sirajuddin Haqqani (Pashto: سراج الدين حقاني, romanized: Sirāj al-Dīn Ḥaqqānī, Pashto pronunciation: [sɪrɑd͡ʒʊˈdin haqɑˈni]; aliases Khalifa and Siraj Haqqani; born 5 December 1979) is an Afghan warlord and Specially Designated Global Terrorist who is the first deputy leader of Afghanistan and the acting interior minister in the internationally unrecognized post ...
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.
The word Taliban is Pashto, طَالِباَنْ (ṭālibān), meaning "students", the plural of ṭālib. This is a loanword from Arabic طَالِبْ (ṭālib), using the Pashto plural ending -ān اَنْ. [97]
The Haqqani network pledged allegiance to the Taliban in 1995, [28] and has been an increasingly incorporated wing of the group ever since. [29] Taliban and Haqqani leaders have denied the existence of the "network", saying it is no different from the Taliban. [28] In 2012, the United States designated the Haqqani network as a terrorist ...
Taliban insurgents in the Taliban-controlled southern Helmand area killed 17 civilians – fifteen men and two women [201] – who were attending a party. A government official said that the victims were beheaded for celebrating with music and mixgender dancing [ 202 ] in the Musa Qala district of Helmand, which ran contrary to the Taliban's ...
Khalil Haqqani (1966–2024), senior member of the Haqqani network; Nazim Al-Haqqani (1922–2014), Turkish Cypriot Sufi and leader of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani Order; Sayeedur Rahman Haqani, senior member of the Taliban leadership; Sirajuddin Haqqani (born c. 1970), Pashtun military leader; Yahya Haqqani, senior member of the Haqqani network, on ...
He was known as the Father of Taliban in Pakistan for the role his seminary Darul Uloom Haqqania played in the graduation of most Taliban leaders and commanders. [9] With his party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) , which split from Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) because Haq supported Zia-ul-Haq and his policies, he was a member of the Senate of Pakistan ...