IN BRIEF / LOS ANGELES
A prominent figure in Afghanistan’s collapsed government who has not been seen for weeks, Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani, was wounded by U.S. bombing last month, a Pakistan-based Afghan news service said.
The Afghan Islamic Press quoted sources in Pakistan’s border town of Miranshah as saying Haqqani, the Taliban’s tribal affairs minister, was moved to an unknown location after the Nov. 16 bombing in the eastern Khost district that killed 62 people, including five of his bodyguards. He hasn’t been seen in public since.
It is unclear whether the famed guerrilla commander, who fought the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, was among the many people killed in the bombing.
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