Division (47) Sayyed Mohammed Haqqani ( alias Sayyed Mohammad Haqqani).F1

Title: Mullah. Grounds for listing: (a) Director of Administrative Affairs under the Taliban regime, (b) Head of Information and Culture in Kandahar Province under the Taliban regime. Date of birth: approximately 1965. Place of birth: Chaharbagh village, Arghandab District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Nationality: Afghan. Date of UN designation: 31.1.2001 .

Other information: Graduate of the Haqqaniya madrasa in Akora Khattak, Pakistan. Believed to have had close relations with Taliban Leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. Believed to be in Afghanistan/Pakistan border area. Member of Taliban Supreme Council as at June 2010. Belongs to Barakzai tribe. Review pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1822 (2008) was concluded on 27 Jul. 2010 . Photo available for inclusion in the INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice. Reportedly deceased as of January 2016. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/notice/search/un/1493918

Additional information from the narrative summary of reasons for listing provided by the Sanctions Committee:

Sayyed Mohammed Haqqani is allied with Gulbbudin Hekmatyar and has been a long-standing supporter of Mullah Mohammed Omar. As Director of Administrative Affairs of the Taliban regime, he distributed Afghan identity cards to Al-Qaida-related foreigners who fought in Afghanistan and collected a significant amount of funds from them.

Sayyed Mohammed Haqqani met several times with Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri and Farhad, Mohammed Omar's secretary, in 2003 and 2004. He opened a bookstore in Qissa Khwani's bazaar, Peshawar, Pakistan, which has been implicated in the financing of the Taliban. He was still an active Taliban insurgency leader as at March 2009. He was a member of the Taliban Supreme Council as at June 2010.