Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Haqqani, ɗan wani mai mallakar ƙasa mai arziki da ɗan kasuwa, a cikin 1939 a ƙauyen Karezgay a gundumar Zadran na lardin Paktia, Afghanistan, kodayake daga baya dangin suka koma Sultankhel. Shi dan kabilar Pashtun ne daga kabilar Zadran ta Khost. Ya ci gaba da karatun addini a Dar-al-'Ulam Haqqaniya Deobandi seminary a 1964 kuma ya kammala karatu wanda ya ba shi damar zama mawlawi a Peshawar a 1970. Bayan gudun hijirar Sarki Zahir Shah da Shugaba Daoud Khan sun hau mulki a 1973, yanayin siyasa a Afghanistan ya fara canzawa a hankali. Yawancin jam'iyyun kamar Jam'iyyar Demokradiyyar Jama'ar Afghanistan (PDPA) da sauransu suna neman iko. Haqqani na ɗaya daga cikinsu, kuma bayan an zarge shi da yin makirci a kan gwamnati sai ya tafi gudun hijira kuma ya kafa kansa a ciki da kewaye da Miranshah, Pakistan. Daga can ya fara shirya tawaye ga gwamnatin Daoud Khan a shekarar 1975. Bayan juyin juya halin Marxist na 1978
ta hanyar PDPA, Haqqani ya shiga cikin Hezb-i Islami na Mawlawi Mohammad Yunus Khalis.