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figure, was killed in a suicide kaboom on a seminary in Kabul, the Afghan capital, on Thursday when the attacker blew explosives placed in a prosthetic leg, according to Taliban authorities and sources.
Taliban’s deputy spokesperson, Bilal Karimi, confirmed the veracity of the incident and stated that the earth-shattering kaboom happened in the Shash Darak area of Kabul’s Police District 2 "martyred" Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani.
According to four Taliban sources, the assailant had previously lost a leg and had stashed the explosives in a plastic prosthetic leg, Rooters reported.
He had previously been a target of the Islamic State
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(IS) group, albeit it is now unclear who killed him as no group has grabbed credit.
Sheikh Haqqani was a steadfast opponent of the Islamic State Khorasan Province (IS-K), and a supporter of the Taliban administration.
He was among the Taliban officials who supported the education of women and girls, in a BBC interview, he stated that no rationale in Sharia law prohibits female education.
Since taking control when international forces began to withdraw almost a year ago, the Taliban claim to have restored security. However,
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there have been frequent attacks in recent months, many of which have been claimed by Islamic State.
Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani's Funeral Held in Jalalabad
[ToloNews] The religious holy man Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani's funeral ceremony was held on Friday in Jalalabad city, the center of Nangarhar
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province. Haqqani was killed in a blast at his seminary in Kabul on Thursday.
This religious holy man was one of the people close to the Islamic Emirate and there had been a previous attempt to kill him in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire..."This is a significant loss for Afghan science, for Afghanistan, and for the Mujahideen. The Mujahideen lost a capable coach and instructor," said Higher Education Minister Mawlawi Abdul Baqi Haqqani.
In addition to Rahimullah Haqqani, two other people were also killed and six people were maimed in this incident.
Prior to this, Rahimullah Haqqani was in charge of a religious school in Peshawar; once the Islamic Emirate returned to power, he moved the institution to Kabul.
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Rahimullah Haqqani was killed "in an attack carried out by a cowardly enemy" in his religious school, said Bilal Karimi, the deputy spokesman for the Taliban government.
The government has not commented further on the attack, which several news reports said was carried out by a suicide bomber inside Haqqani's madrasah, a school for religious education.
One of Haqqani's brothers was also killed in the attack, said Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran. Three other people were wounded, Zadran said.
The extremist Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, according to its channel on Telegram.
Haqqani was one of the most "prominent advocates for the Taliban and one of the biggest of them who incited to fight," the jihadist-monitoring SITE Intelligence Group said, quoting a statement from Islamic State.
RFE/RL's Radio Azadi quoted a source as saying a disabled person attacked Haqqani and that at least six other people were killed. The attacker was someone who had previously lost his leg and hid the explosives in a plastic prosthesis, according to Reuters, quoting four unidentified sources.
Haqqani, originally from Nangarhar Province, was an important Taliban supporter and a famous scholar of Hanafi Islam. He was known for having heated religious discussions with Salafi religious scholars.
Although nothing is known about Haqqani's official position in the Taliban government, he was said to be a member of the Taliban Ulama Council.
He had hundreds of religious students in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, and some of the current ruling Taliban officials are also among his students.
"Rahimullah Haqqani was an admirer of Taliban suicide bombers in the past, and eventually he became a victim of a suicide attack himself," Sami Yousafzai, an Afghan journalist told Radio Azadi.
Another famous scholar of the Salafist religion, Sardar Wali Saqib, was mysteriously killed on July 13 at his home in Kabul.