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| Karzai Aide Assassins Had Contacts with Pakistan: Interior Minister |
| 2011-07-20 |
[Tolo News] Assassins of a close advisor to President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... were having phone contacts with some inside the country and Pakistain, Interior Minister to parliament on Tuesday. Interior Minister General Besmellah Mohammadi said Islamic fascisti are making efforts to kill high-ranking and influential officials. On Tuesday Interior Ministry and Deputy Director of Intelligence organization were called over to the House of Representatives to provide answers about the latest killings of senior Afghan officials, including Jan Mohammad Khan, a close aide of Karzai and Mohammad Hashim Watanwal, an MP who represented Oruzgan in the house. Jan Mohammad Khan was rubbed out by Dost Mohammad Khan an assailant who was 22- year-old and at the same time Mohammad Hashim Watanwal was killed by another attacker, General Besmellah Mohammadi said. "We have obtained their cell phones and the last calls they received were from Pakistain and some other provinces inside the country," Interior Ministers told MPs. Jan Mohammad Khan and Mr Watanwal were killed a late-night thug attack on his home on Sunday this week. The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack. The deaths came more than a week after President Karzai's brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, liquidation by one of his bodyguards at his home. On Monday President Karzai's Spokesperson told a news conference that targeted and serial killings of high-profile Afghan officials wouldn't go without Dire Revenge™. Some politicians also expressed concern about increasingly growing province at a time as Afghan cops have begun to take security lead in some of the handover regions. "The incident has caused widespread concern among the parliamentarians," Speaker of the House Abdul Raouf Ibrahimi said. Some MPs representing Bamyan, the province now under the lead of Afghan cops, voiced concern about possible security threats. Fakour Beheshti, an MP representing Bamyan province, said: "There are 800 Afghan forces stationed in Bamyan. It should be doubled. Bamyan is one of the stable areas in Afghanistan and has occasionally been vulnerable from Baghlan province." |
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