That was fast. He was only killed yesterday.
[ToloNews] Massoud Atal, a military pilot, who was shot and killed by unidentified button men in PD14 of Kandahar city on Wednesday afternoon, wa laid to rest in his hometown in Kandahar province on Thursday.Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch cautiously raised his hat over the edge of the horse trough on the end of a stick......
the Afghan Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that Atal had pursued his education abroad and was expected to complete his training on nighttime flights in the near future.
After completing his education in Afghan Air Force Academy Atal went to Czechia and then to the US where he pursued his education.
"He was educated abroad. Investments were made on him and he became a pilot, but he is lost--simple as that. Was the government unable to give him a guard?" said Zabiullah, Atal’s cousin.
"The government has a responsibility to protect its cadres," said Bismillah, a friend of Atal.
"From the human perspective, the context of military power, and also from an economic perspective, such attacks are devastating," said Atiqullah Amarkhel, a military analyst in Kabul.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the attack.
Atal was 29 and had more than 50 hours of flight time in his career.
Over the past years, many pilots from Afghanistan have pursued their education in Czechia, the US and the UAE.
DEADLY WAVE OF TARGETED KILLINGS
Interior Affairs Minister Massoud Andarabi on Tuesday, while speaking to the Afghan senate about the security situation in the country and particularly in Kabul, said that the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
is behind the assassinations.
"The Taliban had major plans to overrun more areas in the provinces including Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, but they were prevented, causing the group to focus on assassinations in Kabul," Andarabi said.
"The people who were arrested over the assassinations have confessed that a group was created by the Taliban under the name of 'Obaida' in Pashtun-infested Logar province to target
The National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) Chief Gen. Zia Saraj addressed the Senate also, saying that "over 18,200" hard boy attacks have occurred in the last 10 months, "99% of them by the Taliban."
"The ISIS group was only responsible for one percent of the attacks," he said.
6,100 people have been arrested in the country and"3,600 of them were involved in the insurgency activities."
"70 of these arrested people was involved in murders while seven others were wanted to carry out suicide kabooms," he added.