Arif Khan or Mohammad Arif Khan was a
Mujahideen
''Mujahideen'', or ''Mujahidin'' (), is the plural form of ''mujahid'' (), an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in ''jihad'' (), interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religion or the commun ...
warlord
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in
Afghanistan
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and
Pashtun
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leader from the village of
Zakhel. He was a military commander and the Taliban governor of
Kunduz province
Kunduz () is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northern part of the country next to Tajikistan. The population of the province is around 1,136,677, which is mostly a tribal society; it is one of Afghanistan's most ethnically ...
. An account indicated that he might have served under or was associated with the militant commander
Eshan-Sayad Mirza.
Khan was reportedly killed on April 4, 2000.
His death came with the killing of top
Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
Hizbul Mujahideen, also spelled Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (, ), is a Pakistan-based Islamist separatist militant organisation that has been engaged in the Kashmir insurgency since 1989. It aims to separate Kashmir from India and merge it with Pakist ...
commanders. Khan was also accused of killing numerous tribal leaders in Kunduz in order to consolidate power.
See also
*
List of Taliban leaders
External links
Afgha.com
References
2000 deaths
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