AVA - The Islamic Emirate Commander, Killed in Traffic Accident

General Commander of the Islamic Emirate’s Special Units in Ghazni province, who had recently returned from the pilgrimage, is reported to have died in traffic accident.

Afghan Voice Agency(AVA)_Monitoring, Local Ghazni provincial sources say that the recently returned Islamic Emirate commander died in a car accident in the province, leaving his three bodyguards gravely injured.

While confirming this information, Hafiz Omar Ghaznavi, the Islamic Emirate governor’s spokesman, stated that the incident occurred on Monday night in Kotal-e-Rawza, in Ghazni province, on the Kabul-Kandahar route.

The Islamic Emirate’s spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, said that commander Pir Agha, who had just performed the Hajj, had the accident while traveling from Kabul to the province of Ghazni.

While Kotal-e-Rawza is said to be a dangerous route, the driver’s negligence is to blame for this occurrence, according to Islamic Emirate officials.

Islamic Emirate officials were among the 13,000 pilgrims who traveled to Saudi Arabia to perform the pilgrimage this year; the first batch of the pilgrims left on June 12.