Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "อับดุล ฮะกีม จาน" in Thai language version.
Officials blamed the Taliban and said police Chief Abdul Hakim Jan, a prominent pro-government militia commander who was fighting the militants, died in the attack.
Jan, a former provincial police chief, had defied the Taliban as the austere Islamist movement rose to prominence in the 1990s. More recently, he led a locally recruited force that worked in concert with Afghan police and soldiers. His fighters operated in Arghandab, an area just north of Kandahar that was seized by the Taliban last year, then recaptured by Afghan and NATO troops. Jan was the only person who stood against the Taliban and fought with for about two weeks in their stronghold, Kandahar, in 1999. Since he had only seven soldier, it was impossible for him to fight long, he fled the country and went in exile to Pakistan. Taliban could not defeat, arrest or kill him.
Jan was the provincial police chief in Kandahar in the early 1990s and was the only commander in the province to stand up against the Taliban during its rule, said Khalid Pashtun, a parliamentarian who represents Kandahar.
Other leading candidates will be Malim Akbar, the brother of slain Kandahar police chief Zabit Akrem Khakrezwal; and Abdul Hakim Jan, a relatively uneducated police commander in Arghandab.
Officials blamed the Taliban and said police Chief Abdul Hakim Jan, a prominent pro-government militia commander who was fighting the militants, died in the attack.
Jan, a former provincial police chief, had defied the Taliban as the austere Islamist movement rose to prominence in the 1990s. More recently, he led a locally recruited force that worked in concert with Afghan police and soldiers. His fighters operated in Arghandab, an area just north of Kandahar that was seized by the Taliban last year, then recaptured by Afghan and NATO troops. Jan was the only person who stood against the Taliban and fought with for about two weeks in their stronghold, Kandahar, in 1999. Since he had only seven soldier, it was impossible for him to fight long, he fled the country and went in exile to Pakistan. Taliban could not defeat, arrest or kill him.
Jan was the provincial police chief in Kandahar in the early 1990s and was the only commander in the province to stand up against the Taliban during its rule, said Khalid Pashtun, a parliamentarian who represents Kandahar.
Other leading candidates will be Malim Akbar, the brother of slain Kandahar police chief Zabit Akrem Khakrezwal; and Abdul Hakim Jan, a relatively uneducated police commander in Arghandab.
