AN Afghan terrorist has been seen in public for the first time since a £7.5million reward was offered for his arrest.
The Taliban’s secretive interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani was at a parade for new police recruits in Kabul.
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Haqqani, on the FBI’s most-wanted list, is a global terrorist with ties to al-Qaeda.
Until now all pictures of him were taken from behind or obscured.
He said at Saturday’s parade he was showing his face so “you could know how much value we have with our leadership”.
The US want him arrested for his involvement in a Kabul hotel attack in 2008 that killed six people.
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He also oversaw a 2018 suicide attack in the city that left 103 dead.
Haqqani is also head of the militant Haqqani network, a group blamed for indiscriminate bombings and attacks which have killed hundreds of people.
Before the Taliban took power in August last year, he was the most senior deputy to leader Hibatullah Akhundzada.
Akhundzada hasn’t been seen in public for years and some analysts believe he may not be alive.
