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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]
Rahimullah Haqqani (Dari: رحیم الله حقانی; died 11 August 2022) was an Afghan cleric. He was a supporter of the Taliban and a critic of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (IS-K). He believed that women could be educated as he felt there was nothing present in Islamic law that forbade it.
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]
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 ...
Amidst the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan expressed its condemnation of Israeli attacks against Palestinians. [6] In August 2021, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar of the Taliban met with Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas in Doha, Qatar. [7] In October 2022, Taliban official Zabihullah Mujahid met with Ismail Haniyeh in ...
Haqqani is not related to the Acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who in June met the UAE leader, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, but he is from his team.
The Badri 313 Battalion (Pashto: بدري ٣١٣ قطعه) is a unit of the Taliban. [7] The unit's name is closely associated with the Haqqani network, which has reportedly provided them with training. [2] [1] Elite Taliban units like the Badri 313 have been reported as being "critical in the taking over of Afghanistan". [8]
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 ...