# Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1736 of 29 September 2016 implementing Article 11(4) of Regulation (EU) No 753/2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain individuals, groups, undertakings and entities in view of the situation in Afghanistan, Division (53): Sayyed Mohammed Haqqani (alias Sayyed Mohammad Haqqani).

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

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. Other information: (a) Graduate of the Haqqaniya Madrasa in Akora Khattak, Pakistan, (b) Believed to have had close relations with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, (c) Believed to be in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border area, (d) Member of the Taliban Supreme Council as at June 2010, (e) Belongs to Barakzay tribe. Photo available for inclusion in the INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice. Reportedly deceased as of January 2016. Date of UN designation:31.1.2001.
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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/1736/annex/division/I/division/A/division/53 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1736/annex/division-I/division-A/division-53
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