Date
3/24/2019 2:04:58 AM
(MENAFN- Afghanistan Times) AT News Report
KABUL: A former Member of Parliament (MP) Obaidullah
Barikzai has been gunned down in an attack by unknown people in southern
Kandahar province on Saturday, official said.
Barikzai, former MP from Uruzgan province came under gun
attack in the 6th Police district of Kandahar city at around 3:30pm local time.
KandaharPoliceChiefMaj.Gen.Tadin
Khan confirmed the incident. There has been no immediate claim of
responsibility to the attack by any group so far.
He was district governor in Chora district in Uruzgan
province before won a seat in the Wolesi Jirga.
It is worth mentioning that Independent Election Commission,
last year in a report said that 10 candidates were killed since parliamentary
elections in July 2018. Now with Barikzai's assassination the casualties count
for 11.
Based on TOLONews report, the candidates areAbdul
Jabar Qahraman and Saleh Mohammad Achakzai from Helmand province; Nasir Mubarez
from the Kochis' constituency from Kandahar; Anwar Niazi from Parwan; Jalal
Salehi from Kabul; Sayed Obaidullah Sadat from Ghazni; Ottar Singh Khalsa a
candidate of Afghan Sikh and Hindu from Kabul; Hayatullah Khan Rahmani from
Nangarhar, were among the candidates who lost their lives in different incidents
invariousparts of the country.
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