Former Karzai bodyguard killed in Afghanistan

  • 12/15/2022
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, October 18, SPA -- Taliban gunmen fatally shot atribal elder and his son, a former presidential bodyguard,inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan on Saturday,officials said. The gunmen prayed alongside Ali Emat Khan Barakhzai, aninfluential tribal leader, and his son, Gul Emat Barakhzai,before shooting them, said Zulmay Ayubi, spokesman forKandahar's governor. President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack and said noMuslim would kill another person inside a mosque, according to a report of Associated Press. Gul Emat had been a bodyguard for Karzai, said DastagirKhan, a tribal elder with the Barakhzai clan.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/598902

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