Taleban insurgents gunned down a pro-government Islamic scholar in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar yesterday in the second such attack in less than two months, officials said. Maulvi Mohammad Musbah — a leading member of the Kandahar Islamic Council, a pro-government Islamic party — was ambushed and shot outside the city, police chief Mohammed Ayoub Salangi told AFP. He later died in hospital at the US military base in Kandahar, Ahmed Wali Karzai, head of the Kandahar tribal council and President Hamid Karzai's brother told AFP. The attack comes a month after militants assassinated Maulvi Abdullah Fayyaz, the leader of the same council, for speaking out against Taleban fugitive leader Mulla Mohammad Omar.