The Taliban have praised suicide bombers killed during the war against the former government and its Western allies and offered money to their families, promising to give them land, the interior ministry said in a statement.
Shirazuddin Haqqani, the Taliban's interior minister who has been touted by the United States for $ 10 million as an international terrorist, met with the families of the dead at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, which had been the target of a 2018 bombing. .
The official photos from the meeting showed his face blurred.
"In his speech, the minister hailed the jihad and the sacrifices of the martyrs and the Mujahideen and called them heroes of Islam and the country," the ministry said in a Twitter post.
The families of the suicide bombers received clothing, $ 111 and pledges, said spokesman Carrie Sagent Costi.
Haqqani was ousted by his father, Jalaluddin Haqqani, as head of the Haqqani network, a Taliban-linked militant group blamed by Western intelligence services for some of the deadliest suicide bombings during the war.
The man is wanted by the FBI in connection with an attack on another hotel in Kabul in 2008 in which six people were killed, including an American citizen.
Islamic State militants have carried out a series of suicide attacks on mosques and other targets, killing hundreds of civilians, following the Taliban's victory over the Western-backed government, which collapsed in August.
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