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Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani (Pashto: شیخ رحیم الله حقاني) (died; 11 August 2022) was an Afghan Islamic scholar and director of Afghan Madrasas and principal at Madrasah Zubaria in Peshawar. Haqqani also led a brigade of the Afghan Taliban in Nangarhar province. He was a former student of Darul Uloom Haqqania. [1]
Abdul Baqi Haqqani Bashir Mohammad, or Abdul Baqi Haqqani (Pashto: عبد الباقی حقانی [ˈabdʊl bɑˈqi haqɑˈni]; born c. 1961) is an Afghan and senior member of the Taliban. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He became acting Higher Education Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan following the Fall of Kabul in August 2021, a position which he ...
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 ...
Education was improved under the rule of King Zahir Shah between 1933 and 1973, [23] making primary schools available to about half the population who were younger than 12 years of age and expanding the secondary school system and Kabul University. Of the 10.3 billion Afghans. spent on the first "Five Year Plan" (1956-1962), "7.7% was ...
A senior Taliban minister, who publicly condemned the group’s ban on education of girls and women, has reportedly fled Afghanistan amid fears of arrest. Sher Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban’s ...
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]
Messages by two influential Taliban leaders in Afghanistan this week showed tensions between hardliners and more moderate elements who want to scrap harsher policies and attract more outside ...
The tensions between the Haqqani network and the rest of the Taliban are largely due to differences in governing strategy, according to the UK-based think tank Chatham House.