KABUL (SW) –The head of the National Directorate for Security, Massoumi Stanakzai, told the Wolesi Jirga (lower house) today that information was available on the assassination of former Kandahar police chief, Gen. Abdul Raziq Achakzai, in advance.
According to the NDS chief, terrorists, in cooperation with the regional spy agencies made three attempts this year to assassinate Gen. Raziq, but they did not succeed. He said terrorists are using people who are hired with the trust of local officials in security agencies to carry out their plans.
The head of the NDS said that blind trust and personal recommendations for appointing individuals cause such events to happen. According to him, government officials should carefully examine their guards.
In the case of the assassination of Kandahar's former police chief, he said investigations have been carried out in five stages and 22 people are being prosecuted.
Stanikzia added most aspects of the Kandahar incident have become clear, and the Presidency and the international community should help arrest the culprits in Pakistan.
Interior Minister Wais Ahmad Barmak said that the police have carried out its investigations into the Kandahar incident and has shared it with the National Directorate of Security.
According to Barmak, the attacker under the pseudonym ‘Gulbuddin’ was involved in the killing, and the person who hired this person fled after the event to Pakistan.
Meanwhile, the Taliban have issued a statement announcing that the bodies of a number of officers who got killed in a reported helicopter crash in Farah, including Nematullah Khalil, deputy commander of the 207 Zafar Corps and Farid Bakhtavar, the head of the Farah Provincial Council, are with them. They have issued a statement stating that until the body of ‘Zabiullah Abdo Janeh’, an attacker who assassinated General Abdul Raziq, is not given to his family, they would not hand over the bodies of the head of the provincial council of Farah and the deputy commander of the 207th Zafar corps to their families.
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