Abdul Rauf Zakir, also known as Qari Zakir, is the chief of suicide operations for the Haqqani Network and the operational commander in Kabul, Takhar,
Kunduz, and Baghlan Provinces, Afghanistan.
Seven Indian engineers and their Afghan driver were abducted in the first week of May,
2018 in the Bagh-e-Shamal area of northern Baghlan Province where they were working on an electricity sub-station.