ISIS claims responsibility for killing Taliban government's Minister of Refugees Khalilur Rehman Haqqani

A senior source in the Taliban government told the MKD Officials News page that the Minister of Refugees, Khalilur Rehman Haqqani, was killed in a "suicide" attack.

Mr. Haqqani was the uncle of the Taliban's Interior Minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, who had been the acting Minister of Refugees for the past three years.

According to this source, the attack took place today (Wednesday, December 11) inside the Ministry of Refugees in Kabul city, and three other people were also killed.

The spokesman for the Taliban government's Ministry of Information and Culture also confirmed the killing of Khalilur Rehman Haqqani and asked the media to use only the word "martyrdom" in reference to his killing and to strictly refrain from using other words

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack. The ISIS-affiliated Amaq news said the suicide bomber attacked the Taliban government minister as he left his office and detonated a bomb attached to himself.

ISIS has also released a photo of the attacker.

A Reuters news agency report said that a Taliban spokesman confirmed that Khalilur Rehman Haqqani was killed by ISIS>

Earlier, Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid had said in a statement on the killing of Khalilur Rehman Haqqani that Mr. Haqqani was martyred in a merciless attack by the Khawarji this afternoon.

In the statement, the Taliban did not introduce the term 'Kharijites', but wrote that they [Kharijites] "call themselves Muslims and declare other Muslims to be takfir except for themselves".

According to the statement, the 'Kharijites' cannot achieve their goal with such attacks.

This is the third deadly attack on senior Taliban officials since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021.

In March 2023, the Taliban gobernment attacked the governor of Balkh, Mohammad Daud Wafa Muzammil, with the so-called "Islamic State" (ISIS), killing him and two other people.

Previously, in October 2022, an explosion at a mosque in Kabul belonging to the Taliban's Ministry of Interior killed at least four people and injured more than 20 other