Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - I whanau a Haqqani, te tama a te rangatira whenua whai rawa me te kaihokohoko, i te tau 1939 i te kainga o Karezgay i te rohe o Zadran o te rohe o Paktia, Afghanistan, ahakoa i neke te whanau ki Sultankhel. He Pashtun ia no te iwi Zadran o Khost. I whakaakona e ia nga akoranga haahi matatau i te whare wananga o Dar-al-'Ulam Haqqaniya Deobandi i te tau 1964 ka mutu ana i a ia te mana o te mawlawi i Peshawar i te tau 1970. Whai muri i te whakaraunga o Kingi Zahir Shah me te taenga mai o te Perehitini Daoud Khan ki te mana i te 1973, ka tiimata te huri haere o te ahuatanga torangapu i Afghanistan. He maha nga roopu penei i te People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) me etahi atu e rapu ana i te mana. Ko Haqqani tētahi o rātau, ā, i muri i te whakapae i a ia mō te whakatakoto i tētahi whakatakotoranga ki te kāwanatanga, ka haere ia ki te whakarau, ka noho ki Miranshah, Pakistan, me ōna wāhi e karapoti ana. Mai i reira ka tiimata ia ki te whakahaere i tetahi tutu ki te kawanatanga o Daoud Khan i te tau 1975. I muri i te hurihanga Marxist 1978
na te PDPA, i uru a Haqqani ki te Hezb-i Islami o Mawlawi Mohammad Yunus Khalis.