Known as the Lion of Herat, Khan battled Soviet occupiers in the 1980s and was a key member of the Northern Alliance whose US-backed forces toppled the Taliban in 2001.
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Javed Mahmood
I am an experienced writer, analyst, and author. My exposure in English journalism spans more than 28 years. In the past, I have been working with daily The Muslim (Lahore Bureau), daily Business Recorder (Lahore/Islamabad Bureaus), Daily Times, Islamabad, daily The Nation (Lahore and Karachi). With daily The Nation, I have served as Resident Editor, Karachi. Since 2009, I have been working as a Freelance Writer/Editor for American organizations.
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The United States and the United Kingdom are initiating flights to evacuate their diplomats from Afghanistan
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Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that the blast was an outcome of a nexus between Afghan-Indian intelligence agencies