Taliban refugee minister Khalil Haqqani was killed in a suicide bombing contained in the Interior Ministry in Kabul, the motion’s highest-profile casualty since returning to energy in Afghanistan in 2021.
Six others died within the explosion as Haqqani was leaving his workplace, Interior Ministry sources stated.
Khalil Haqqani was a number one member of a robust Taliban faction known as the Haqqani Network, and was designated a world terrorist by the United States.
The assault was later claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
According to a report launched by the Amaq information company, an ISIS militant waited exterior the minister’s workplace and detonated explosives on his method out.
A Taliban spokesman confirmed that Haqqani was killed by ISIS, the Reuters information company reported.
Khalil Haqqani’s brother, Jalaluddin, was a well-known guerrilla chief who fought Soviet troops in Afghanistan within the Eighties and based the Haqqani community that was behind many assaults in the course of the twenty-year Taliban insurgency.
Sirajuddin Haqqani, the minister’s nephew and Jalaluddin’s son, is the present Interior Minister within the Taliban authorities.
Although the general safety scenario in Afghanistan has improved for the reason that Taliban gained full management with the complete withdrawal of overseas troops in 2021, dozens of bombings and suicide assaults proceed to happen within the nation yearly.
Many have been claimed by Khorasan Province of the Islamic Stateor ISKP, the regional affiliate of the so-called Islamic State group, a significant rival of the Taliban.
