updated Mon. February 19, 2024
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The National
September 8, 2017
Hossaini's comments come ahead of an event at the House of Commons on Monday to celebrate the legacy of Afghan national hero Ahmed Shah Masoud, the military leader who resisted Soviet forces and opposed local militias and the Taliban before his assassination by a suicide bomber 16 years agoÃâà...
Carbonated.tv (blog)
August 18, 2017
Be it Hekmatyar or Ahmed Shah Masoud, I would cover my head, sit with them and have qahwa (tea). They respected me. They knew I had no agenda other than serving people with medical facilities,” she told the Pakistani newspaper Dawn. She never backed down. Following her untiring efforts, the government of PakistanÃâà...
Scroll.in
August 14, 2017
Be it Hekmatyar or Ahmed Shah Masoud, I would cover my head, sit with them and have qahwa. They respected me. They knew I had no agenda other than serving people with medical facilities.” The same deference was extended to her even in the whirlpool of Karachi's politics. As one volunteer at herÃâà...
DAWN.com (blog)
August 10, 2017
Be it Hekmatyar or Ahmed Shah Masoud, I would cover my head, sit with them and have qahwa. They respected me. They knew I had no agenda other than serving people with medical facilities.” The same deference was extended to her even in the whirlpool of Karachi's politics. As one volunteer at herÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
April 23, 2017
Principally led by the US, Hamid Karzai's administration gave a blanket amnesty to the Afghan Mujahideens, except for Ahmed Shah Masoud, the only though dominant warlord who saw a fatal fate. He was assassinated on September 9, 2001 just two days prior to 9/11 tragedy. It is broadly believed he wasÃâà...
The Times
February 14, 2017
The Taliban murdered Ahmed Shah Masoud, one of the finest leaders Afghanistan ever had, for warning America about 9/11. Now his son is becoming a political figure and he is as fine a man as his father. Putin's regime has no compunction about murdering opponents. Russia must be made to understandÃâà...
Newsweek
March 25, 2016
The Belgian connection to Islamic terror turns up again and again. The murder of Ahmed Shah Masoud, leader of the Northern Alliance and a Western ally who would have been capable of striking back at al Qaeda after the attacks of 9/11, was murdered days earlier by men who had conspired in Brussels.
BBC News
January 16, 2015
The murderers of the Afghan anti-Taliban fighter Ahmed Shah Masoud - just before the September 2001 al-Qaeda attacks in the US - started their deadly mission in Brussels. A Belgian cell within the Groupe Islamique Marocain Combattant (GICM) played an important role in the devastating 2004 MadridÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 9, 2014
Ahmed Shah Masoud had not nominated a deputy to take over in the event of his death, and so a shura was convened and various functions were allotted to his trusted lieutenants. Fahim was given the responsibility of military affairs. It was therefore a natural progression for him to take on the Ministry ofÃâà...
The New York Review of Books
December 4, 2013
... Abdullah was a close follower of the famous Panjshiri Tajik leader Ahmed Shah Masoud, assassinated by Al Qaeda on the eve of 9/11. Few Pashtuns have forgotten the atrocities committed by Masoud's militias against Pashtuns during the civil wars of the 1990s and after the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
