{"id":38426,"date":"2024-12-13T00:28:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T21:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=38426"},"modified":"2024-12-13T00:28:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T21:28:44","slug":"tight-security-ahead-of-afghan-ministers-funeral-after-suicide-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/tight-security-ahead-of-afghan-ministers-funeral-after-suicide-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tight Security Ahead of Afghan Minister\u2019s Funeral After Suicide Bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Tight security measures have been implemented in preparation for the funeral of an Afghan minister killed in a suicide bombing.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The attack marked the death of Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani, the most prominent official killed in a violent act since the Taliban took power three years ago.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Haqqani was killed on Wednesday in an explosion at the Ministry of Refugees in the capital, Kabul, along with several other victims. Officials have not yet disclosed an updated death toll.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Khalil Haqqani was the uncle of the acting Afghan Interior Minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, who leads a powerful faction within the Taliban. The U.S. has previously announced a reward for information leading to their capture.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to a statement from ISIS-affiliated Amaq News Agency, one of their fighters carried out the suicide bombing. The attacker reportedly waited for Haqqani to leave his office before detonating the explosive device.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The minister\u2019s funeral is set to take place Thursday afternoon in Gardez District, Paktia Province, the Haqqani family\u2019s stronghold in eastern Afghanistan.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The United Nations Mission in Afghanistan was among those condemning the attack on the ministry.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It stated on platform X (formerly Twitter): &#8220;There is no place for terrorism in the pursuit of stability.&#8221; Meanwhile, the ministry\u2019s account on X noted that training workshops had been held at the site in recent days.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The ministry sees daily visits from large numbers of internally displaced persons seeking assistance or resettlement opportunities. Afghanistan is home to over 3 million people displaced by war.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tight security measures have been implemented in preparation for the funeral of an Afghan minister killed in a suicide bombing. The attack marked the death of Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani, the most prominent official killed in a violent act since the Taliban took power three years ago. Haqqani was killed on Wednesday in an explosion at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38427,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38426\/revisions\/38427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}