Taliban’s ‘Muslimyar’ group organized attack on Rashid: MoI

KABUL (Pajhwok): Three people, who have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Yousuf Rashid on Monday said a Taliban group named Muslimyar ordered them to carry out the attack.

Yousuf Rashid, head of Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FFEFA) and his driver were killed in an armed attack in Kabul city on December 23.

Today, the three arrested suspects were paraded before media representatives and they confessed to their crime.

Zakaria aka Sulaiman, one of the organizers of the attack on Rashid, said that he was a resident of Baraki Barak district of Logar province and he was recently recruited by a Taliban commander there, named Rahmatullah.

“After my recruitment, I came to Kabul and identified the residence of Yousuf Rashid in four months and then shared it with a Taliban group Muslimyar, and a few days later, he was assassinated by members of this group,” he said.

Tariq Arian, spokesman of the Ministry of Interior, said that the three arrested insurgents were members of Taliban group named Muslimyar which operated in Logar.

Besides these three rebels, a number of other people are also involved in the murder and they are under police chase, he said.

Arian said Muslimyar group had 50 members which operated in Baraki Barak district. The group is also involved in making and planting roadside bombs and, he said.

Targeted attacks on civil society activists and journalists have recently increased as seven journalists and a number of civil society activists have been killed in the last two months.

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