Islamic State claims the murder of the Taliban Refugee Minister in the attack in Kabul (Afghanistan)

MADRID Dec. 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), the official name of the terrorist organization’s affiliate in Afghanistan, has claimed responsibility for the attack carried out this Wednesday in the center of Kabul, the country’s capital, in which the Minister of Refugees died. and Returnees appointed by the Taliban, Jalil Rahman Haqqani.

The group has claimed responsibility for the attack that killed the minister and at least three other people, according to SITE Intelligence Group, an organization specialized in monitoring terrorist groups.

The minister was leaving a mosque in the Afghan capital when a suicide bomber who was waiting for him detonated his vest loaded with explosives, the terrorist organization explained.

The ISKP has claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement released by Amaq News Agency, considered its media arm, in which it defends its action in retaliation for the peace agreement sealed in February 2020 with the then United States Government, headed by Donald Trump. , starting point of the foreign withdrawal.

Haqqani was appointed Minister of Refugees in September 2021, after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan a month earlier. He is the uncle of Sirajudin Haqqani, Minister of the Interior and leader of the Haqqani network, an organization closely linked to the Taliban and an essential apparatus in the combat supply chain during the war, as well as the brother of Jalaludin Haqqani.

The group has been accused on several occasions of committing terrorist attacks and its members have been subject to sanctions imposed by the United Nations.