New Delhi: The Afghan Taliban’s acting minister for refugees, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, has been killed in a blast in the country’s capital Kabul, his nephew Anas Haqqani said on Wednesday.

Khalil Haqqani became a minister in the Taliban’s interim government after foreign forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.

Haqqqni was a senior leader of the Haqqani network, a militant faction blamed for major attacks during the 20-year war, according to the US State Department.


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