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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