Noor Mohammad Saqib

For other people named Noor Muhammad, see Noor Muhammad (disambiguation).

Noor Mohammad Saqib (Pashto: نور محمد ثاقب [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]

Sheikh Noor Mohammad Saqib نور محمد ثاقب
Minister of Hajj and Religious Affairs
Acting
Assumed office 7 September 2021
Prime Minister	Hasan Akhund (acting)
Leader	Hibatullah Akhundzada
Preceded by	Faiz Mohammad Usmani
Chief Justice of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
In office c. 1996 – c. 2001
Prime Minister	Mohammad Rabbani
Leader	Mullah Omar
Preceded by	Abdul Satar Sanaie[1]
Succeeded by	Hibatullah Akhundzada
Personal life
Nationality	Afghan
Alma mater	Darul Uloom Haqqania
Occupation	Politician, Taliban member
Teachers	Qazi Hamidullah Khan Zahid Ur Rashdi

Education

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]