Al-Jazeera correspondent quoted an Afghan government official today, Thursday, as saying that the head of the Association of Ahl Al-Hadith Scholars in Afghanistan, "Sardar Wali Thaqib", was assassinated by unknown gunmen in front of his house in the capital, Kabul.
Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Nafei Thakur said that Saqib was shot dead in the "Kota-e Sangi" area of Kabul on Wednesday evening.
While no party has yet claimed responsibility for the accident;
Sources in the Taliban movement accused the Islamic State of being behind his assassination, but the Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman announced the assignment of a team to investigate the incident, and promised to announce the results when the investigations were completed.
It is noteworthy that Sheikh Saqib participated in the meeting of scholars called by the Taliban before the last Eid al-Adha, and announced his support for the new Afghan government and the leader of the Taliban movement, Sheikh Hebatullah Akhundzada.
Sheikh Sardar Wali Thaqib is considered one of the pioneers of Salafism in Afghanistan.
He was born in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan, completed his religious studies in Pakistan, then moved in 2006 to the city of Jalalabad and established his school, which was considered one of the largest and most famous Ahl al-Hadith schools in Afghanistan.
It is noteworthy that some religious scholars were targeted in Afghanistan, the most prominent of the Salafist scholars were Sheikh Rahma Shah, Sheikh Ubaidullah Mutawakkil, and university professor Mubashir Muslamyar.
On the other hand, Al-Jazeera correspondent in Afghanistan quoted a government official as saying that unknown gunmen killed last night 4 people working in a bakery near the city of "Bul Alam", the capital of Logar province, south of the capital, Kabul, including 3 brothers.
A government source also told Al Jazeera that 7 civilians were killed in a shooting targeting their car in the Bagman area, west of the Afghan capital, Kabul.