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Afghanistan News.Net
Monday 21st January, 2008 (IANS)
A provincial head of Afghanistan's national reconciliation commission was killed by unidentified gunmen in the southern province of Zabul, an official said Monday.
Unidentified armed men, who intercepted Qayyum Mujaddedi's car Sunday afternoon, shot him dead and abducted his driver and one of the guards, said Gulab Shah Alikhel, a spokesman of Zabul's provincial governor.
Mujaddedi's body was found in Kakaran area near Qalat, the capital of Zabul, Alikhel said.
Mujaddedi was the director of the Commission for National Reconciliation, established by the Afghan government to persuade militants to eschew violence and join the government's peace efforts. He was on his way to Kabul.
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