Afghanistan

Foreign-backed terrorists killed Member of Afghan Peace Council in Kabul

Unknown armed men have shot dead a member of the Afghan Peace Council in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul.

Arsala Rahmani was gunned down by an assailant in a passing car after he left his house on Sunday morning.

“Shortly after leaving home he was hit by a single bullet from a passing car. The bullet passed through his left arm and hit his heart,” AFP quoted Rahmani’s grandson Mohammad Waris as saying.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. However, Taliban militants are blamed for the assault.

The former head of the Peace Council Burhanuddin Rabbani was also assassinated in September 2011.

The Afghan High Peace Council had warned that no foreign power should engage with the Taliban without Afghanistan’s consent and that the office should only be used to conduct negotiations.

However, the United States has been secretly negotiating with the Taliban for more than a year.

During the negotiations, the US gave the Taliban the opportunity to open an office in Qatar and agreed to release high-ranking Taliban prisoners.

The US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 removed the Taliban from power, but insecurity continues to rise across the country despite the presence of about 130,000 US-led forces in the war-torn country.

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