Kandahar police chief’s brazen killing another sign of Afghanistan’s crumbling security

Gen. Abdul Raziq’s own guards could not protect him from being gunned down in broad daylight by the Taliban inside the governor’s heavily protected compound.

Gen. Abdul Raziq, Kandahar’s provincial police chief, pictured in 2012, was gunned down by a Taliban fighter on Oct. 18. Tech. Sgt. Renee Crisostomo photograph courtesy of the U.S. Air Force

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

October 24, 2018

OTTAWA—On Oct. 18, there was a brazen attack in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. General Abdul Raziq Achakzai, the provincial police chief, and local Afghan intelligence commander Gen. Abdul Momin were gunned down in cold blood by a Taliban extremist. Kandahar Governor Zalmai Wesa was badly ...

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