Taliban kill pro-govt cleric
KHOST: Taliban militants have killed a senior pro-government cleric, the third such killing in just over a month, a provincial governor said on Saturday. Agha Jan, the senior Islamic cleric in the southeastern province of Paktika, was stabbed to death along with his wife at his house on Friday evening, Paktika Governor Gulbaddin Mangal said. "It was the Taliban who did it," Mangal said.
Posted by: Fred 2005-07-10 |