Details of the raid that killed Rauf remains murky, but the reasons are not. Wahidullah Jumazada, a spokesman for the provincial governor in Ghazni, only said that Afghan forces killed six suspected militants without acknowledging that the dead included Rauf. Last week, the Taliban killed about 40 security forces in the early hours of Wednesday reminiscent of the 40 Indian soldiers killed in Pulwama in 2019. Kabul labelled the dead as Taliban, mimicking Israeli viciousness: kill innocent children and then dehumanise them by labelling them as terrorists, all to sanitise one’s own crimes. By announcing to have hunted down Rauf, Kabul is attempting to highlight its utility to the Americans about killing an enemy the American people have almost forgotten about.

Source: The Express Tribune October 29, 2020 03:45 UTC