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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.
Haqqani, believed to be in his 50s, has continued to be on the U.S. radar even after the Taliban takeover. In 2022, a U.S. drone strike in Kabul killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, who had ...
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Haqqani, a senior member of the powerful Haqqani network and uncle of the Taliban’s interior minister and senior leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, was handling the refugee crisis in Afghanistan.
Haqqani is the most high-profile casualty of a bombing in Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to power three years ago. “We lost a very brave Mujahid,” his nephew Anas Haqqani told Reuters ...
[3] [7] During a September 2011 interview, Sirajuddin Haqqani said the figure of 10,000 fighters, as quoted in some media reports, "is actually less than the actual number." [ 96 ] Throughout its history the network's operations have been conducted by small, semi-autonomous units organized according to tribal and sub-tribal affiliations often ...
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 ISI have close links to the Haqqani network [67] and contribute heavily to their funding. [68] U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen in 2011 called the Haqqani network (the Afghan Taliban's most destructive element) a "veritable arm of Pakistan's ISI". [57] He further stated: