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Former Uruzgan MP Killed In Kandahar
[ToloNews] Obaidullah Barikzai, former MP from Uruzgan, was killed in an attack by unknown gunnies in neighboring Kandahar province on Saturday. Kandahar Police Chief Maj. Gen. Tadin Khan confirmed the incident and said Barikzai was attacked in Kandahar’s PD6 by unknown gunnies on Saturday afternoon. Barikzai also ran for parliamentary elections from his native province, Uruzgan. Barikzai was a district governor in Chora district in Uruzgan before he won a seat in the Afghan parliament. Last year in October, the Independent Election Commission released a list of the candidates who bit the dust since the beginning of the parliamentary elections in July 2018. According to the list, 10 candidates were killed during this period and Barikzai was the 11th. The candidates are Abdul Jabar Qahraman and Saleh Mohammad Achakzai from Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province; Nasir Mubarez from the Kochis’ constituency from Kandahar; Anwar Niazi from Parwan; Jalal Salehi from Kabul; Sayed Obaidullah Sadat from Ghazni; Ottar Singh Khalsa a candidate of Afghan Sikh and Hindu from Kabul; Hayatullah Khan Rahmani from Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , were among the candidates who bit the dust in different incidents in various parts of the country. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-03-24 |
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