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The head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, has been killed by a Taliban suicide bomber at his home close to the American embassy in Kabul.

Four aides were also killed in the attack, for which the Taliban claimed responsibility on Tuesday night. The bomber detonated explosives hidden in his turban as he embraced Prof Rabbani.

A senior adviser to President Hamid Karzai, Mohammed Masoom Stanekzai, the chief executive of the Afghan Peace and Reintegration Programme, was seriously injured in the attack, although his condition was not believed to be critical.

Fazel Karim Aymaq, a member of the High Peace Council, said two “very trusted” figures had come to Prof Rabbani’s home in Kabul’s upmarket Wazir Akhbar Khan neighbourhood with “special messages” from the Taliban.

“One of them put his head on the shoulder of Rabbani and detonated the explosives hidden in his turban,” he said.

Another council member, Habibullah Fawzi, said the bomber, who was “wearing Afghan style clothes – shalwar kamez and turban – came from Quetta to Kabul with a message of peace from the Taliban.

“He met Rabbani and Stanekzai. Rabbani was expecting him. He was supposed to be a key member of the Taliban. They discussed peace and after the meeting was over Rabbani stood up to wish this man goodbye. Rabbani and the Talib hugged and that was when he blew himself up.” Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility, saying that the killer had gone to Prof Rabbani’s home for talks.

“As soon as Rabbani came three steps forward to hug Mohammad Masoom, he triggered his explosive-filled jacket killing Rabbani, [another] Taliban militant Wahid Yar and four security guards present at the house,” he told a news agency.

Mujahid said the Taliban’s central leadership had appointed two “articulate and well-trained” fighters – Masoom and Yar – to build contacts with Prof Rabbani.

“Both of them were frequently meeting him at his Kabul home and secured trust of Rabbani and his guards. They were telling Rabbani that they would soon bring senior Taliban leadership to the negotiating table with him,” Mujahid said by phone from an undisclosed location.

Michael Semple, a Taliban expert and former deputy European Union special representative to Afghanistan, described the attack as “one of the biggest blows the peace process in Afghanistan has faced”.

“It raises the question of whether there is the space for Afghans to talk and whether they can avoid a civil war,” he said.

William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said he was “appalled” by the attack and paid tribute to Prof Rabbani.

“He worked tirelessly for peace and a secure future for Afghanistan and we are confident that this in no way will reduce the determination of the government of Afghanistan to continue to work for peace and reconciliation.

“I will be discussing that with foreign minister Dr Rassoul of Afghanistan at our meeting this week,” Mr Hague said. President Barack Obama also condemned the attack, while Mr Karzai, who announced he was cutting short his trip to the United Nations general assembly, described Prof Rabbani as a martyr who had sacrificed his life for peace.

“This is a sad day for us in Afghanistan but a day of unity and day of continuity for our efforts,” he added.

A spokesman for the United States embassy in Kabul confirmed that the attackers had struck close to its building, but said it had not been the target of the attack.

General John R Allen, the commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, said the killing was “another outrageous indicator that, regardless of what Taliban leadership outside the country say, they do not want peace, but rather war”. Prof Rabbani, an ethnic Tajik, was a hero of the anti-Soviet resistance in Afghanistan and his Jamiat-e-Islami were the first Mujahideen fighters to enter Kabul after the Soviet withdrawal in 1992.

He was president from 1992 until his regime was ousted by the Pashtun-led Taliban in 1996.

He was appointed to head the peace council last year despite his leadership of the opposition Jamiat-e-Islami.


Turban bomber kills former Afghan president - Telegraph
 
The ever growing ingeniousness of terrorist. Taliban killing their own men. How sh1tless one has to be to wear a bomb in his turban? I think the Hiroshima treatment could work well for Afghanistan. These people were taught the best art of deception and lieing by the CIA during the Afghan-Soviet war. Now they have turned into every growing cancer in society!
 
The ever growing ingeniousness of terrorist. Taliban killing their own men. How sh1tless one has to be to wear a bomb in his turban? I think the Hiroshima treatment could work well for Afghanistan. These people were taught the best art of deception and lieing by the CIA during the Afghan-Soviet war. Now they have turned into every growing cancer in society!

Do you recommend Nukes for pakistan too because of your extremists and Taliban?
 
Do you recommend Nukes for pakistan too because of your extremists and Taliban?

We have MOAB and FOAB, dont need nukes..i did not mention anything nukes..The "Hiroshima treatment" in rough slang is used to express the military tactic of dealing a single massive blow to completely demoralize and hopefully force the enemy into surrender.
 
Reports are saying that recent visit of Rabbani to Iran may provoke opposition and cause of his murder.
 
Reports are saying that recent visit of Rabbani to Iran may provoke opposition and cause of his murder.

Hard to say anrthing for definate. but recently he had criticized the Taliban for using very young kids to carry out attacks, especially suicide attacks.
 
We have MOAB and FOAB, dont need nukes..i did not mention anything nukes..The "Hiroshima treatment" in rough slang is used to express the military tactic of dealing a single massive blow to completely demoralize and hopefully force the enemy into surrender.

How it will surrender enemy when you said they penetrated in society? will this bold idea work there? Does it may call right treatment?
 
Hard to say anrthing for definate. but recently he had criticized the Taliban for using very young kids to carry out attacks, especially suicide attacks.

What you think if he wanted to get support of neighbour countries against Karzai government as Karzai played important role in discontinuation of dialogues in between Taliban & US?
 
What you think if he wanted to get support of neighbour countries against Karzai government as Karzai played important role in discontinuation of dialogues in between Taliban & US?

Honestly dont know,but it looks unlikely that Karzai might have any hand in it, as the suicide element will eliminate this possiblity. On the other hand, Rabbani had been critical of Karzai and in opposition for many years.
 
May be he was not singing the desired tune of the puppet masters. This has happened in the past. Crucial arrests at important times or sudden resurgences when convenient. But this surely tells that the puppet masters are now agreeing for settling for less and there seems to be the thinking of cutting the losses by dividing Afghanistan. Let us hope that it is not yet another miscalculation for the love of strategic things..
 
Its the handiwork of Taliban. Rabbani was the perhaps only person who could unite the non-pashtuns in Afghanistan. With the support of Iran, he could have become a major hurdle in the way of Talibs.
 
Its the handiwork of Taliban. Rabbani was the perhaps only person who could unite the non-pashtuns in Afghanistan. With the support of Iran, he could have become a major hurdle in the way of Talibs.

He was very pragmatic person, that is why he was chosen to head the peace council.
 

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