Kabul: Arsala Rahmani, a former high-ranking Taliban official working on reconciling Afghanistan’s insurgency with the government, was killed as he was riding in his car on Sunday.
A gunman shot him dead with a silenced pistol in one of Kabul’s most secure area near Kabul university.
The death of Rahmani, a top member of the Afghan peace council and a senator in parliament’s upper house, dealt another setback to efforts to negotiate a political resolution to the decade-long war.
He was a former Taliban official who reconciled with the government and was active in trying to set up formal talks with the militants.
He was shot just hours before President Hamid Karzai announced the third stage of a five-stage transition process that will have the Afghan National Security forces in control of the country by the end of 2014, when most foreign combat troops are to leave the country.
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