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The United States has eliminated millions of dollars in rewards of upper members of the Haqqani militant network in Afghanistan, including one in its leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is also the Interior Minister of the Taliban Government.
It is a significant movement since the Haqqani network is accused of carrying out some of the most high profile and mortal attacks in Afghanistan during the war led by the United States in the country, including attacks against US and Indian embassies, and NATO forces.
Currently, the network is a key part of the Taliban government, which has controlled Afghanistan since foreign troops withdrew from the country in 2021, after an agreement arrived between the United States and the Taliban during the first mandate of President Trump.
The measure to lift the rewards arrives weeks in the second mandate of President Trump, and a few days after US officials met with the Taliban government in Kabul to ensure the release of an American tourist, arrested since 2022.
A spokesman for the United States Department of the United States confirmed to the BBC that “there is no current reward” for Sirajuddin Haqqani, his brother Abdul Aziz Haqqani and the brother -in -law Yahya Haqqani, but they are still ‘specially designated global terrorists and the Haqqani network remains designated as a foreign terrorist organization. “
An FBI website, which on Monday showed a reward of $ 10 million in Sirajuddin Haqqani, has now been updated to eliminate the reward offer.
The spokesman of the Taliban Ministry, Abdul Mateen Qani, told the BBC that the lifting of the rewards “was the result of continuous diplomatic efforts” by his government. “It is a good step and this shows our new interaction with the world and particularly with the United States.
On Saturday, an American delegation, including the envoy of hostages Adam Boehler and the former envoy of Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, met with the Foreign Minister of the Taliban Government, Amir Khan Muttaqi and other Taliban officials in Kabul. After, National of the United States. George Glezmann, Arrested in December 2022 while visiting Afghanistan as a tourist, he was released by the Taliban government.
It is not clear if lifting the rewards was part of the negotiations.
Founded by the father of Sirajuddin Haqqani, Jaluddin Haqqani, in the 1980s, the Haqqani network began as an anti -otavistic team backed by the CIA that operates in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it became one of the most feared anti-western militant organizations in the region.
The group allied with the Taliban when they took power for the first time in Afghanistan in 1996. Jaluddin Haqqani died of a prolonged disease in 2018.
Currently, Sirajuddin Haqqani is emerging as an energy center in the Taliban Government of Afghanistan, as the cracks between him and the supreme leader of the Mullah Hibatullah Akhundada Talibany grow.
The members of the Taliban government have told the BBC that the issue of women’s education is a key point of disagreement between the two parties.
Haqqanis have tried to project as a more moderate and galvanizing support among people in the country that are frustrated by the intransigence of the supreme leader in women’s education.
The fall of rewards by the United States government is evidence that its height is also growing externally, between parts of the desired international community to interact with the Taliban.
Additional reports from Mahfouz Zubaide and Bernd Debusmann
