Nordland, Rod; Abed, Fahim. „Taliban Overrun Government Offices and Kill Two Top Officials“. The New York Times (2018-yil 12-aprel). „Mohammad Arif Noori, a spokesman for the governor of Ghazni Province, said that Taliban insurgents attacked the government compound of Khwaja Umari district, killing the district governor, Ali Dost Shams, 30, and the district chief of the National Directorate for Security, Ahmad Ziya.“.