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Afghanistan
Kapisa Ulema chief was assassinated on Taliban instructions: NDS
2017-09-21
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ulema Council chief of the northeastern Kapisa province of Afghanistan was assassinated on the instructions of the Taliban
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group, the Afghan Intelligence said Wednesday.

The National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) in a statement said the main suspect involved the killing of Mawlavi Gul Mohammad Hanifyar, the Ulema Council chief of Kapisa, has been tossed in the clink
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The statement further added that the detained suspect has been identified as Abdul Muqeem who is currently in the custody of the intelligence operatives.

Muqeem was arrested during an operation of the intelligence operatives conducted in the vicinity of Kohistan
...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
at district of Kapisa, the statement said.

NDS also added that the detained individual has confessed that he is an active member of the Taliban group and was involved in the liquidation of Mawlavi Hanifyar.

He has said that the liquidation was carried out by him on the instructions of Khan Aqa.

According to Muqeem, Khan Aqa is also famous as Mawlavi Nasratullah and is currently involved in terrorist related activities in this province, being the shadow district governor of the Taliban group.
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