Kabul: A senior Taliban scholar who is known for his fiery speech on ISIS died Thursday in his Madrassa in the capital of Afghanistan in a suicide attack claimed by the jihadist group.
Rahimullah Haqqani, who has just spoken publicly for the sake of girls who were allowed to go to school, congratulations at least two previous murder efforts – including one in Pakistan in October 2020.
“Madrassa Sheikh Rahimullah was the target of today and as a result he and one of his siblings became martyrs,” Kabul Khalid Zadran’s police spokesman told AFP, adding that the other three were injured in the explosion.
Zadran previously said that only Haqqani was killed and four others were injured.
The Government Spokesman Bilal Karimi confirmed his death “in an attack carried out by the enemy of the haunction”, but did not offer further details.
A few hours later, ISIS claimed the attack on his telegram channel, said the bomber had detonated its pellel vest inside the ulama office.
Haqqani is one of the most “leading advocates for the Taliban and one of the biggest of those who incite to fight” ISIS, said the jihadist monitoring group site, translating statements from ISIS.
Sources -Taliban sources said that although he did not hold an official position, Haqqani was an influential figure who had taught many group members for many years.
A number of Taliban officials descended on social media to express their condolences.
“You have fulfilled your responsibilities. Destiny cannot be prevented, but the Muslim community has become an orphan,” Tweet Mobin Khan, a former Kabul police spokesman.
Haqqani is known for an angry speech against IS, who has claimed several attacks in Afghanistan since the return of the Taliban in August last year.
In recent months, he also supports the right of women to go to school.
“There is no justification in sharia to say women’s education is not permitted. There is no justification at all,” he told the BBC in an interview in May.
Since winning power a year ago, the Taliban has imposed strong restrictions on girls and girls to comply with their hard vision of Islam.
They do not allow secondary schools for girls to be reopened in most countries.