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| Key Taliban group leader Abdul Wali killed in Laghman province |
| 2017-03-14 |
| [Khaama (Afghanistan)] A key leader of the Taliban group identified as Abdul Wali was killed during festivities with the security forces in eastern Laghman ...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a reputionagreat wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin. He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property... province. The provincial government media office in a statement said Wali was killed during the festivities between the Afghan forces and Taliban snuffies in Alishen district. The statement further added that the festivities took place late on Saturday afternoon in the vicinity of Kotali area. Wali was involved in a number major terrorist attacks in various parts of Laghman province, the provincial government said, adding that his dead body was left for several hours in the battlefield after the remaining snuffies fled the area. The provincial government also added that sporadic festivities had taken place in other parts of the quiet provincial capital on Saturday evening which left at least three forces of Evil dead or maimed. |
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