Английская Википедия:Ahmad Jan (Taliban governor)

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Maulvi Ahmed JanШаблон:Pronunciation-needed (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,[1] before being appointed the Governor of the Zabul Province in 2000.[1] 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.[1][5] 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.[1][5] He was captured in late February 2010.[1] He was eventually released from prison[1] and became the Haqqani Network's spiritual leader.[6] Jan eventually became the chief deputy to network leader Sirajuddin Haqqani[1] 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.[1][6]

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