Taliban’s minister for refugees killed in blast

Khalil Rahman Haqqani, the Afghan Taliban's acting minister for refugees, has been killed in a blast in the country's capital Kabul.

His nephew Anas Haqqani said this on Wednesday.

Haqqani held his ministerial position after the Taliban's takeover in 2021 and was a senior leader of the Haqqani network. 

The US State Department has long considered the Haqqani network a terrorist organisation.

“We lost a very brave Mujahid,” Anas Haqqani told a news agency, using the Taliban's term for its fighters, meaning a holy warrior. “We will never forget him and his sacrifice.”

Khalil Haqqani was born in 1966 in Afghanistan's Paktia province. 

Source: Agencies