{"id":302218,"date":"2018-09-04T06:07:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T06:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302218"},"modified":"2018-09-04T06:07:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T06:07:47","slug":"afghan-taliban-says-haqqani-network-founder-died-due-to-prolong-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/afghan-taliban-says-haqqani-network-founder-died-due-to-prolong-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Taliban says Haqqani network founder died due to prolong illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-302219 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/haqqani-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/haqqani-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/haqqani-515x420.jpg 515w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/haqqani.jpg 543w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Afghan Taliban on September 4 announced that Jalaluddin Haqqani, the founder of the Haqqani network, died after a long illness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to US media reports Haqqani was reportedly ill for a long period of time. He was a member of Quetta Shura, a terrorist organisation comprising Afghan Taliban leaders, who are believed to be based in Balochistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was an Afghan mujahideen commander fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed that Haqqani was an instrumental figure in keeping the Taliban together following the death of Mullah Omar, former Afghan Taliban leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jalaluddin &#8220;was from among the great distinguished Jihadi personalities of this era,&#8221; the Taliban said in the English version of its statement posted on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In recent years Jalaluddin network of fighters was allied to the Taliban and considered the deadliest threat to American troops in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Haqqani also held ministerial position in the Afghan Taliban&#8217;s government, which ruled Afghanistan before the US invasion in 2002 that followed the September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan Taliban on September 4 announced that Jalaluddin Haqqani, the founder of the Haqqani network, died after a long illness. According to US media reports Haqqani was reportedly ill for a long period of time. He was a member of Quetta Shura, a terrorist organisation comprising Afghan Taliban leaders, who are believed to be based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[4716,428,4588,4715],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302220,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302218\/revisions\/302220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}