Jalaluddin Haqqani Military person
Mawlawi Jalaluddin Haqqani (Pashto: جلال الدين حقاني) (born 1939) is the leader of the Haqqani network, a insurgent group fighting, initially against US-led NATO forces, and the present government of Afghanistan they support. He distinguished himself as an American-sponsored insurgent fighter in the 1980s during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, including Operation Magistral. By 2004, he was directing pro-Taliban militants to launch a holy war in Afghanistan and hit government targets inside Pakistan. Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars, claims that Haqqani introduced suicide bombing in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.
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| allegiance | Haqqani network Mujahideen |
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| service start | 1970 |
| service end | 1970 |