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Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead, say Taliban sources
 [DAWN] Chief of the Haqqani bad boy network and father of Sirajuddin Haqqani, Jaluluddin Haqqani, died almost a year ago of natural causes and was buried in Afghan province of Khost...which coincidentally borders North Wazoo and Kurram Agency... , according to reliable sources among the Afghan Taliban. Anybody else peg out that we should know about? While news of Jalaluddin Haqqani's death had been making rounds for almost a month now, multiple credible sources in Taliban confirmed today that he had died of illness almost a year ago. The bad boy group has not officially given out a statement over Haqqani's demise yet. Sources, however, say Sirajudin Haqqani, Jalaluddin's son, has been running the bad boy network for over a year now, ever since his father's illness. News of Jalaluddin's death comes a mere two days after the announced death of Afghan Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... The news of Mullah Omar's death was first leaked through unnamed sources in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... on Wednesday and the Afghan intelligence and government soon after followed in with a confirmation. Posted by: Fred 2015-08-01 |
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