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October 19, 2011

Daily Star: Daughter says Afghanistan’s Rabbani sought suicide ban

by Staff
The Daily Star

SHARJAH/QUETTA/KABUL: Days before he died when a Taliban militant detonated a bomb hidden in his turban, Burhanuddin Rabbani was trying to persuade Islamic scholars to issue a religious edict banning suicide bombings.

The former president’s daughter, 29, said in an interview that her father died shortly after he spoke at a conference on “Islamic Awakening” in Tehran.

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