The Taliban announced this Thursday that a prominent cleric, Sheikh, had died. Rahimula Hakkani, He lost his life in a bomb attack on a madrasa where he gave a seminar in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
One of the spokespersons of the Taliban, Bilal Karimi, On his Twitter account, he reported the death of Hakkani, who “reached the highest martyrdom” after suffering “a brutal attack from a ruthless enemy”.
Haqqani’s figure was quite known in Afghanistan despite his work as a clergyman and residing mainly across the border in Peshawar, Pakistan. As a supporter of the Taliban, he was against the Islamic State of Khorasan Province, the Afghan branch of this terrorist group.
In a recent interview for the British BBC, Hakkani said: supporter of allowing women and girls access to educationthus against the idea of the Taliban and this caused a lot of criticism in the international community.
For the clergyman who passed a religious decree to allow this access to schools for women and girls, “there is no justification in sharia law to say that women’s education is not allowed”.
“There is no justification. All religious books have declared that women’s education is permissible and compulsory in an Islamic environment such as Afghanistan or if a woman falls ill. Pakistanand she needs treatment, it would be much better if a woman was treated by a doctor,” he said.
The author of the attack is currently unknown. Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, several attacks against the new fundamentalist authorities in the country. The last of these happened Kabul In June, not knowing who was behind it.
The Islamic State terrorist group has been one of the main perpetrators of these attacks, as well as the militants’ militia. National Resistance Front (FRN), a month after the capture of Kabul, called for arming and fighting the Taliban in particular. Panjshirin the north of the country.