Ahmad Jan (Taliban governor) explained

Ahmad Jan
Death Date:21 November 2013
Death Place:Pakistan
Nationality:Afghan
Other Names:Ahmad Jan Akhundzada
Known For:Taliban leader
Occupation:Politician, Taliban fighter

Maulvi Ahmed Jan (died 21 November 2013) was a former Taliban official who eventually became the Haqqani Network's chief spiritual adviser. Hailing from Ghazni province of Afghanistan,[1] Ahmad Jan had also served the Taliban government of Mullah Omar as federal minister for water and power, before being appointed the Governor of the Zabul Province in 2000. His name figured on the CIA's list of most wanted Taliban commanders after he was accused of masterminding a number of deadly suicide attacks in Afghanistan. According to the United Nations, in 2000, an individual known as Maulavi Ahmad Jan was the Taliban's Governor of Zabol Province.[2] The United Nations listed him as an individual subject to the sanctions authorized by United Nations Security Council resolutions 1267 and 1333.[3] [4]

In March 2010, he was sanctioned by the United Nation for his ties to Al Qaeda. At the time, Jan was described as a chief financier and logistics official for the Haqqani Network and one of the leaders of the Taliban's Quetta Shura.[5] He was captured in late February 2010. He was eventually released from prison and became the Haqqani Network's spiritual leader. Jan eventually became the chief deputy to network leader Sirajuddin Haqqani and had been responsible for organizing some of the network's most deadly attacks in Afghanistan.[6] On 21 November 2013, Jan was killed in Pakistan after missiles from a U.S. predator drone struck his seminary in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bannu district.

References

  1. News: Who was Maulvi Ahmad Jan, the droned Haqqani leader? . Amir Mir . The News International . 25 November 2013 . 5 December 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131205212054/http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-216246-Who-was-Maulvi-Ahmad-Jan-the-droned-Haqqani-leader . 5 December 2013 .
  2. News: Security council committee on Afghanistan designates further individuals, financial entities relating to resolution 1267 (1999) and 1333 (2000) . . 12 April 2000 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090811090956/http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/afg124.htm-old . 11 August 2009 . In a note verbale addressed to Member States on 12 April 2000, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) concerning Afghanistan designated funds and financial resources of the Taliban as per paragraph 4(b) of that resolution and approved a list of entities and/or persons that have so far been identified by the Committee based on information provided by Member States as falling under one of the categories mentioned in the above note, as well as in Press Release SC/6844. The following entities have been added to the list ... Maulavi Ahmad Jan, Governor of Zabol Province . dead . dmy-all.
  3. News: Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) concerning Al-Qaida and the Taliban and Associated Individuals and Entities . . 15 October 1999 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100612061356/http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/ . 12 June 2010 . dead . dmy-all.
  4. News: The Consolidated List established and maintained by the 1267 Committee with respect to Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden, and the Taliban and other individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with them . . 25 January 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100306024726/http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/consolidatedlist.htm . 6 March 2010 . TI.A.109.01. Name: 1: AHMAD JAN 2: AKHUNZADA 3: na 4: na Name (original script): احمد جان آخوند زاده Title: Maulavi Designation: Governor of Zabol Province under the Taliban regime DOB: na POB: Urazgan province, Afghanistan Good quality a.k.a.: na Low quality a.k.a.: na Nationality: Afghan Passport no.: na National identification no.: na Address: na Listed on: 25 January 2001 (amended on 3 September 2003, 21 September 2007) Other information: na . dead . dmy-all.
  5. News: Pakistan wipes out half of Quetta Shura . . 1 March 2010 . Amir Mir . https://web.archive.org/web/20100309043309/http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=27544 . 9 March 2010 . According to well-informed diplomatic circles in Islamabad, the decision-makers in the powerful Pakistani establishment seem to have concluded in view of the ever-growing nexus between the Pakistani and the Afghan Taliban that they are now one and the same and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Quetta Shura Taliban (QST) could no more be treated as two separate Jihadi entities. . dead . dmy-all.
  6. News: US drone strike kills senior Haqqani leader in Pakistan . S.B. Shah . . 21 November 2013 . 5 December 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131124032159/http://news.yahoo.com/first-us-drone-strike-pakistans-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-kills-041441452.html . 24 November 2013 .

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