Gunmen Assassinate Religious Scholar in Kabul

Unknown gunmen have shot dead a religious scholar and a worshiper when the two left a mosque after a morning prayer in Karte Naw neighborhood of Kabul city, the Taliban police in Kabul confirmed.

Spokesman for Taliban police in Kabul, Khalid Zadran, identified the religious scholar as Qari Najibullah Azizi who was the imam or worship leader of Abubakr Sediq Mosque in the neighborhood. Azizi was targeted by unknown gunmen while returning from the mosque to his home on Thursday morning, November 17, according to Zadran.