Sirajuddin haqqani biography definition
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Afghan militant leader Jalaluddin Haqqani 'has died'
Jalaluddin Haqqani, the Afghan founder of the militant Haqqani network, died at least a year ago, sources close to the group have told the BBC.
Haqqani died after a long illness and was buried in Afghanistan, the sources added.
Rumours about Haqqani's death have circulated for some years and can still not be independently confirmed.
The latest report comes a day after the Taliban acknowledged that its leader, Mullah Omar, was dead.
Reports of Haqqani's death, quoting Taliban sources, also appeared in Pakistani media on Friday. One senior person från afghanistan official said he had died six years ago.
The network has never confirmed the death of its founder. A man linked to the family denied Friday's reports, telling the BBC that Jalaluddin Haqqani was still alive but ill.
The Haqqani network - based in the tribal regions of Pakistan with links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban - has been behind many of the co-ordinated
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Sirajuddin Haqqani
Afghan Taliban warlord (born 1979)
Sirajuddin Haqqani (Pashto: سراج الدين حقاني, romanized: Sirāj al-Dīn Ḥaqqānī, Pashto pronunciation:[sɪrɑd͡ʒʊˈdinhaqɑˈni]; 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-2021 Taliban regime. He has been a deputy leader of the Taliban since 2015, and was additionally appointed to his ministerial role after the 2021 withdrawal of foreign troops. He has led the Haqqani network, a semi-autonomous paramilitary arm of the Taliban, since inheriting it from his father in 2018, and has primarily had military responsibilities within the Taliban.[3][4][5][6]
As interior minister, he has control over much of the country's internal security forces. As deputy leader of the Taliban, he ov