| Honorific-Prefix: | Sheikh | ||||||||||||
| Noor Mohammad Saqib | |||||||||||||
| Office: | Minister of Hajj and Religious Affairs | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Acting | ||||||||||||
| Term Start: | 7 September 2021 | ||||||||||||
| 1Blankname: | Leader | ||||||||||||
| 1Namedata: | Hibatullah Akhundzada | ||||||||||||
| Primeminister: | Hasan Akhund (acting) | ||||||||||||
| Predecessor: | Faiz Mohammad Usmani | ||||||||||||
| Office1: | Chief Justice of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan | ||||||||||||
| 1Blankname1: | Leader | ||||||||||||
| 1Namedata1: | Mullah Omar | ||||||||||||
| Primeminister1: | Mohammad Rabbani | ||||||||||||
| Predecessor1: | Abdul Satar Sanaie[1] | ||||||||||||
| Successor1: | Hibatullah Akhundzada | ||||||||||||
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Noor Mohammad Saqib (in Pushto; Pashto pronounced as /nur mʊˈhamad sɑˈqɪb/) is the Minister of Hajj and Awqaf in the Taliban rule in Afghanistan.[2] He also previously been the chief justice of the Supreme Court during the 1996–2001 Taliban rule of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.[3] [4]
Saqib studied at Darul Uloom Haqqania in Pakistan and had won first positions both in his seminary and in the Federation of Madrassas of Pakistan in the final Hadith examination. A year before the Hadith study, he studied at Madrasa Anwar-ul-Uloom, Central Jamia Masjid, Gujranwala, where he studied Mishkat Shareef and Hidayah from Qazi Hamidullah Khan and Jalalin Sharif from Zahid Ur Rashdi.[5]