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The Yale Politic
March 12, 2018
Journalists, artists, and politicians, including the future president of Afghanistan, Burhanuddin Rabbani, debated politics in their living room. At his mosque, Malik learned about Mansa Musa and the Muslim empires of Timbuktu. Prayer, reading the Qur'an, and the devotional life were all indispensable in hisÃâà...
The Wire
March 5, 2018
In fact, the Taliban had assassinated the chief of the Afghan High Peace Council – the former president, Burhanuddin Rabbani – weeks before the 2011 Loya Jirga. Is the outcome of Ghani's peace overtures going to be different? I am afraid, not. While Ghani, in his speech, flaunted the successful peace deal he has cut withÃâà...
gulfnews.com
March 2, 2018
President Burhanuddin Rabbani shook hands with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, chief of the hardline dissident Hezb-i-Islami party, at the Prime Minister's House in Islamabad before sitting down to discuss a Pakistani-proposed peace formula. “The level of sincerity for the understanding reached gives assuranceÃâà...
Newsweek
February 14, 2018
There the United States managed a fractious coalition of opposition groups ranging from moderates led by men like Burhanuddin Rabbani to extreme Salafists led by others like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. As long as the US was part of the equation, we ensured that the more moderate elements played a leadingÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 19, 2017
... former Vice President Ahmad Zia Masud, the brother of the anti-Soviet and anti-Taliban resistance leader Ahmad Shah Masud; Rabbani, the son of the late Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani; and Abdullah. "Atta Mohammad is actually a later generation of those bigger commanders," Ruttig notes.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
September 28, 2017
Second deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mohammad Mohaqiq, said Burhanuddin Rabbani was a teacher, a guide and a great leader of Afghanistan, who always struggled for unity among Afghans. Meshrano Jirga info-icon Speaker Fazal Hadi Muslimyar analogized Rabbani to a book and said:Ãâà...
TOLOnews
May 23, 2017
But we hope that these dramatic obstructions come to an end in the future,” Jamiat's spokesman Waqif Hakimi said. The Jamiat party was initially established 60 years ago. Sources say that Jamiat has been grappling with internal disputes after the assassination of its founding leader Burhanuddin Rabbani.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
May 10, 2017
(HIA) supreme leader Gulbadin Hekmatyar on Wednesday attended a prayer service (fateha) for the deceased former president Ustad Burhanuddin Rabbani. A member of the HIA told Pajhwok Afghan News that Hekmatyar along with a high-ranking delegation visited the residence of Salahuddin Rabbani,Ãâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
September 24, 2011
Controversies notwithstanding, former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani was an integral player in Afghanistan's contemporary history. I suspect he will be remembered by most as the ideologue-turned-freedom fighter who went on to assume the role of a peacemaker. It is not a simple story.
RFI
September 21, 2011
The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the assassination of former Afghan president-turned-peacebroker Burhanuddin Rabbani, according to the Reuters news agency. But the murder is a blow to peace moves that the insurgents are reported to have taken part in. Who might be responsible for theÃâà...
New York Times
September 20, 2011
The assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani , the leader of Afghanistan's High Peace Council and a former president, on the heels of a carefully planned attack on the American Embassy a week ago, underscored the fierce opposition of those who want to shatter the country's tenuous stability and thwart itsÃâà...
The Wire
December 31, 1999
In fact, the Taliban had assassinated the chief of the Afghan High Peace Council – the former president, Burhanuddin Rabbani – weeks before the 2011 Loya Jirga. Is the outcome of Ghani's peace overtures going to be different? I am afraid, not. While Ghani, in his speech, flaunted the successful peaceÃâà...
