Mohammad Hossein Sadiqi Nili | |
Birth Date: | 1940 |
Birth Place: | Nili, Uruzgan province (now Daykundi Province), Afghanistan |
Death Place: | Urozgan, now Daykundi, Afghanistan |
Death Cause: | Shooting |
Occupation: | Jihadist, Politician |
Party: | Hezbe Wahdat |
Muhammad Hussain Sadiqi Nili (محمدحسین صادقی نیلی) was one of the jihadist leaders in Afghanistan.[1]
Muhammad Hussain Sadiqi Nili, was born on 1940, in a family of Hazara, in the Nili village of Daykundi. He learned elementary religious knowledge in his hometown, in Nili. Later, in 1970, he went to Najaf, Iraq for advanced religious studies.[2]
He is the father of Nasrullah Sadiqi Zada Nili.[3]
On 15 November 1990, in Nili some of his enemies who were members of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan shot him in his house through the window. In this attack, he and his three-year-old son are killed.