Khalil Haqqani’s brother Jalaluddin was a prominent guerrilla leader who fought with Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s and founded the Haqqani network, which was behind many attacks during the Taliban’s 20-year insurgency.
Sirajuddin Haqqani, the minister’s nephew and Jalaluddin’s son, is the current interior minister in the Taliban government.
While the overall security situation in Afghanistan has improved since the Taliban took full control with the full withdrawal of foreign troops in 2021, the country continues to experience dozens of bombings and suicide attacks each year.
Many of them were in demand Islamic State Khorasan Provinceor ISKP, a regional affiliate of the so-called Islamic State group, the Taliban’s main rival.
