ABDUL HAQ, the legendary Afghan resistance commander, was captured and hanged on October 25 by the Taliban while on a mission inside Afghanistan to contact local Taliban leaders who wished to defect.

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The Taliban claimed Haq had slipped into Afghanistan six days ago to rally people against the Taliban and in favor of the former king, Mohammad Zaher Shah, who is living in exile in Rome. Haq was ...

Abdul Haq is a 30 year old father who lives in the Sang-e-Atash district in the Badghis province of Afghanistan, with his wife, four daughters and two sons. He works from morning into the night ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- In the days before the anti-Taliban leader Abdul Haq was seized and executed by his foes, James Ritchie was nervous one minute, buoyant the next as he monitored a personal ...

Forty years ago this month in Peshawar in North-West Pakistan, my taxi pulled up outside the gates of the headquarters of exiled Afghan mujahideen leaders Younis Khallis and Abdul Haq. I didn’t know ...

ore than a year ago it became clear to any casual reader of news from Afghanistan that there was growing opposition to the Taliban. The resistance came not just from the Northern Alliance, but from ...

The five Guantanamo Bay detainees swapped for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl are, from left, Mullah Norullah Nori, Mohammed Nabi Omari, Mohammed Fazl, Khairullah Khairkhwa and Abdul Haq Wasiq. (U.S. Department of ...

In mid-March, TIP leader Abdul Haq al-Turkistani called on various al Qaeda figures and the head of the Taliban to offer more rhetorical support for the Uighurs’ cause. Earlier this month, al Qaeda’s ...

Less than a week before he was captured and executed by the Taliban, Abdul Haq sounded subdued and pensive on the phone. Gone was his habitual jovialness and off-beat sense of humor that had marked ...