Image copyright AFP Image caption Jalaluddin Haqqani and the network were behind many prime profile terror attacks
The founder of the Haqqani militant network has died after a few years of illness, the Afghan Taliban has announced.
Jalaluddin Haqqani used to be a significant militant figure in Afghanistan and had close ties to both the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
The Haqqani community has been behind a lot of the co-ordinated attacks on Afghan and Nato forces in latest years.
His son is thought to have taken over regulate of the gang in 2001.
“Just as he persevered great hardships for the religion of Allah throughout his formative years and well being, he also persisted lengthy sickness all through his later years,” a press release from the Afghan Taliban said.
there were no details within the statement about the date or place of his demise.
Rumours about Haqqani’s demise have circulated for years.
In 2015, assets with regards to the gang instructed the BBC that the leader had died no less than a 12 months sooner than. This was once never showed.
‘Exemplary warrior’
Jalaluddin Haqqani was an Afghan guerrilla leader who fought Soviet troops that occupied Afghanistan in 1980s.
US officials have admitted that at the time he was once a prized asset of the Vital Intelligence Agency (CIA).
However, he later allied himself to the Taliban once they took energy in Afghanistan in 1996.
In its observation, the Taliban known as Jalaluddin an “exemplary warrior… and among the great distinguished Jihadi personalities of this era”.
The Haqqani workforce were blamed for a few of the deadliest attacks within the usa, together with a truck bomb explosion in Kabul in 2017 that killed more than A HUNDRED AND FIFTY people.
