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December 17, 2005
Afghanistan: Muslim Cleric Killed in Kandahar
Afgha.com reports that a Muslim cleric was shot by unidentified gunmen on motorcycles, in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
Mullah Ahmad Shah was a member of the city's Ulema Shoura, a pro-government council of clerics. He was ambushed as he went to a mosque in the centre of Kandahar, where he was to give lessons to students. This mosque had been built by Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taleban.
Imams who have supported the government have recently been killed. In Tani district, near Khost, Mullah Maulvi Ahmed Khan was blown up in his mosque as he performed Friday prayers on October 14.
During the summer, attacks against clerics led to the deaths of four imams; two were killed in Kandahar, one in Helmand and one in Paktika. On June 1, 20 people were killed and 40 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself inside a mosque during a memorial service for Imam Mawlavi Abdullah Fayaz. Fayaz had been shot dead earlier that week.In the north of the country, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a large shrine at Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of the province of Balkh. The man killed himself but no-one else.
Bangladesh's Daily Star states that riots have broken out in a village in the Charkh district of Logar province, south of Kabul, the capital, on Friday. The anger of the mob was aimed at the police. Windows were smashed and stones were thrown, and gunfire was heard among the rioters.
What had initiated the anger of the crowd was the arrest of four men by Afghan police on Thursday and two more on Friday. The police claim that those they arrested are Taliban fighters. The villagers claim that they are Muslim clerics.
There have also been attacks on schools. Earlier today, gunmen on motorbikes shot at students in Lashkargah, Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, killing a pupil and a janitor. On Thursday a schoolteacher was shot dead in Helmand, in an act condemned by President Hamid Karzai as an "act of terrorism".
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at December 17, 2005 4:21 PM
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