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. When Khalis died in 2006 his son took over the organization, but later transitioned to the Tora Bora Military Front. He was thought to have been arrested by the

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during a raid in

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in June 2009 and was released from internment later in 2012. On 22 August 2016 one of Taliban's spokesman,

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, announced that Anwar ul Haq had pledged allegiance to the new Taliban emir,

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