Ibrahim Haqqani is a citizen of

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

, a prominent member of the

Zadran tribe The Zadran ( ps, ځدراڼ ''dzadrāṇ''; pronounced ''dzādroṇ'' in the Khost-Paktia dialect), also spelled Dzadran or Jadran, is a Pashtun tribe that inhabits the Loya Paktia region in southeastern Afghanistan (Khost, Paktia, and Paktika pro ...

, who served with the

Taliban The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state (polity), state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalist, m ...

, and was later a high level appointee of

Hamid Karzai Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repub ...

, the President who replaced the Taliban. He is a brother of Jalaluddin Haqqani, often described as the Taliban's Senior military leader in Afghanistan. He Approached the NATO forces in 2002 at the behest of Jalaluddin Haqqani and Abdul Jalil, but was instead arrested and tortured. upon his release, Ibrahim Haqqani was appointed a governor by Hamid Karzai, the more diplomatic president. When the US Senate's Intelligence Committee it published a 600-page unclassified summary of its investigation the CIA torture program it confirmed that Haqqani had been held by the CIA in its archipelago of black sites.

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