MAIMANA (Pajhwok): Gen. Ghulam Farooq, a former commander of Hezb-i-Jamiat Islami Afghanistan, has been killed in a roadside bombing in northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Tuesday.
Police spokesman Abdul Karim Yourish told Pajhwok Afghan News that Farooq, heading an uprising group, was killed in a bomb late Monday night.
Militants stormed a security check-post in the Sherinak area of Almar district. Farooq was killed as a roadside bomb ripped through his vehicle. He was on the way to the post to support . . .
