Rahimullah Haqqani ( prs, 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.

Death

On 11 August 2022, he was killed in a

suicide bomb attack A suicide attack is any violent attack, usually entailing the attacker detonating an explosive, where the attacker has accepted their own death as a direct result of the attacking method used. Suicide attacks have occurred throughout histor ...

in Kabul. The attacker reportedly had a bomb stuck to his amputated leg. Another Taliban-aligned cleric, Mujib Rahman Ansari, was also assassinated a few weeks later.

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