Afghan Jihad terror leader under fire for poor recitation of the 'perfected' Quran

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New Delhi: In a first since Taliban regained control of Afghanistan last year, the leader of dreaded Haqqani Network and the country’s minister of interior affairs Sirajuddin Haqqani, who carries a USD 10 million bounty on his head, made a public appearance Saturday.

However, it was not just his first pictured and video graphed public appearance that drew attention, but also his purported struggle in reciting verses from the Quran.

Haqqani is the son of Haqqani Network founder, Jalaluddin Haqqani, and currently handles the activities of the group.

The network — commonly described as a Sunni Islamist militant organisation — was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the United States in 2012. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has also put a bounty on Sirajuddin, offering up to $10 million for providing information leading directly to him….

Apart from the rare release of his image, the other thing that has been making news about Sirajuddin’s Saturday event, was the minister’s alleged inability to recite properly from the Quran.

According to Hamid Haideri, editor in chief of the 1 TV News Afghanistan — an Afghan news channel — “Haqqani began his speech at a graduation ceremony with a verse from Surah Al-Imran, but was unable to recite it correctly”.

In a 21-second video clip of the event shared by Haideri on Twitter, Sirajuddin appeared to be struggling to remember the exact verse and had to take help of notes.

A longer video posted by a Twitter handle named ‘Taliban Exposed’ (which posts anti-Taliban content) suggests that Haqqani had omitted saying ‘sadaq Allah Al-Azeem’ (meaning Allah Almighty speaks the truth) — as is uttered at the end of every recitation of a verse from the Quran. The minister later said it, after someone reminded him of it….

According to Sharif Hassan, a New York Times reporter in Afghanistan, Haqqani is under attack by opponents for misreading the Quran verse.