KABUL, Nov 11: Suspected loyalists of Afghanistan’s ousted Taliban regime shot dead a deputy provincial governor travelling to a conference in the capital about national reconciliation, an intelligence official said Friday.
Gunmen opened fire on Nimroz province deputy governor Haji Namatullah on Thursday as he was travelling by car to Kabul, the province’s intelligence director Mohammad Yaseem said.
None of the other people in the car was hurt in the ambush in Zabul province on the Kandahar-Kabul highway.
Mr Namatullah was going to Kabul for a two-day conference organised by the National Independent Commission for Peace and Reconciliation.—AFP
