...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
Province.
The governor-general of the province ordered the police to investigate the incident seriously,' said Jilani Farhad in a phone call with the Islamic Theocratic
RepublicNews Agency (IRNA) about the liquidation of Jafar Tavkkoli.
Farhad added that the people of Herat organized a sit-ins and protests in front of the governor-general's office to demand an investigation into the incidents, which was answered positively.
Tavakkoli was a representative of Ayatollah Hakim and a politically and religiously active scholar.
In past, Sheik Abdulvahed Saberi and Yuonos Alavi were assassinated; the killers have not been identified.
The President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..condemned killing of known religious scholars and called it unforgivable crime.
Ghani said that such killings are not acceptable in any religions, ordering the security authority of Herat to investigate the incident and arrest the criminals.
| Khaama News gives the cleric’s name as Jafar Tawakali, and adds: |
The provincial security commandment said a group of unknown gunnies carried the attack and managed to flee the area after the attack.
No individual or group including Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
forces of Evil have so far grabbed credit behind the attack.