Rahimullah Haqqani

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.

He had previously survived two assassination attempts, including a 2020 bombing in Peshwar, Pakistan, which killed seven people.[1]

Death

On 11 August 2022, he was killed in a suicide bomb attack in Kabul. The attacker reportedly had a bomb stuck to his amputated leg.[2][3] Another Taliban-aligned cleric, Mujib Rahman Ansari, was also assassinated a few weeks later.[4]

References
  1. "Prominent Taliban scholar killed in Kabul attack". Al Jazeera. 11 August 2022.
  2. Sands, Leo (11 August 2022). "Rahimullah Haqqani: Afghan cleric killed by bomb hidden in artificial leg – reports". BBC News. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  3. "Taliban say bombing kills prominent Afghan cleric in Kabul". The Washington Post. Associated Press. 11 August 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  4. "مولوی «مجیب‌الرحمن انصاری» در حمله انتحاری داعش کشته شد" [Maulvi "Mujib al-Rahman Ansari" was killed in an ISIS suicide attack]. Tasnim News Agency (in Persian). Retrieved 12 September 2022.
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