Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Taliban commander outside his home in Chaman, police said on Wednesday. Qari Naimatullah, who was teaching at Madrassah in the main border crossing town of Chaman, was attacked by two gunmen when he was returning home late Tuesday, a local police officer said.
"We do not know the motive behind the attack. Naimatullah's family did not lodge a formal complaint with the police," the officer who did not want to be named said. Naimatullah was an associate of the governor of Afghanistan's Khost province during the 1996-2001 Taliban regime, which was toppled in a US-led military blitz in late 2001 for harbouring the al Qaeda network, officials said.