JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a religious scholar in the Behsud district of eastern Nangarhar province, the fourth cleric killed in less than a month.
Also a teacher, the scholar was killed by two motorcyclists in the Akhunzada village of the district on Wednesday afternoon.
Ahmad Riyaz, a relative of the victim, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Ghulam Faroq was on his way home when killed near a police check-post.
He was originally a resident of the Lalmi village of Chaparhar district but was working as a schoolteacher in Akhunzada . . .
