{"id":13736,"date":"2024-12-11T21:14:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T15:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=13736"},"modified":"2024-12-11T21:14:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T15:29:22","slug":"afghan-refugees-minister-killed-by-suicide-blast-govt-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/afghan-refugees-minister-killed-by-suicide-blast-govt-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan refugees minister killed by suicide blast: govt source"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Afghan minister for refugees was killed on Wednesday in a suicide explosion at the ministry&#8217;s offices in the capital Kabul, a government source told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately an explosion happened at the Ministry of Refugees and minister Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani has been martyred along with some of his colleagues,&#8221; the official said, requesting not to be named.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the explosion was caused by a suicide blast.<\/p>\n<p>Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani &#8212; who is on the US sanctions list and never appears without an automatic weapon in his hand &#8212; was the brother of Jalaluddin Haqqani, who founded the feared Haqqani network responsible for some of the most violent attacks during the Taliban&#8217;s two-decade insurgency.<\/p>\n<p>He was also the uncle of Sirajuddin Haqqani, the current interior minister.<\/p>\n<p>The Haqqanis are said to be engaged in a struggle for influence within the Taliban authorities.<\/p>\n<p>According to press reports, they are pitted as a pragmatic faction up against supporters of the severe interpretation of Islamic law in line with the Taliban&#8217;s supreme leader based in Kandahar.<\/p>\n<p>Several senior Taliban leaders have been killed since their return to power, including provincial governors, commanders and religious clerics, mostly in attacks claimed by the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n<p>Violence has waned in Afghanistan since the Taliban forces took over the country in 2021, ending their war against the United States and Nato-led foreign forces.<\/p>\n<p>However the regional chapter of Islamic State, known as Islamic State Khorasan, is active in Afghanistan and has regularly targeted civilians, foreigners and Taliban officials with gun and bomb attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghan minister for refugees was killed on Wednesday in a suicide explosion at the ministry&#8217;s offices in the capital Kabul, a government source told AFP. &#8220;Unfortunately an explosion happened at the Ministry of Refugees and minister Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani has been martyred along with some of his colleagues,&#8221; the official said, requesting not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13738,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13736\/revisions\/13738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}