Abdur Razzaq (Taliban Interior Minister)
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Mullah
Abdur Razzaq, an ethnic Pashtun
, is a member of the Taliban leadership as of the early 2000s, and a former Afghan Interior Minister.
Razzaq traveled to Pakistan
in mid-May
2000 to discuss
the extradition of
criminals, terrorism, drug trafficking and the Afghanistan Transit Trade
Agreement.
Pakistan demanded the closure of 18 Afghan training camps, where they believed Pakistani militants were receiving training.
The British
paper The Scotsman
reported that Razzaq was
a founding member of the Taliban; that he headed the Taliban's customs department; and was later Interior Minister.
The May 11, 2003 article said that Razzaq was the number two in
a then new Taliban military command structure.
Mullah
Mullah is generally used to refer to a Muslim man, educated in Islamic theology and sacred law. The title, given to some Islamic clergy, is derived from the Arabic word مَوْلَى mawlā , meaning "vicar", "master" and "guardian"...
Abdur Razzaq, an ethnic Pashtun
Pashtun people
Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...
, is a member of the Taliban leadership as of the early 2000s, and a former Afghan Interior Minister.
Razzaq traveled to Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
in mid-May
2000 to discuss
the extradition of
criminals, terrorism, drug trafficking and the Afghanistan Transit Trade
Agreement.
Pakistan demanded the closure of 18 Afghan training camps, where they believed Pakistani militants were receiving training.
The British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
paper The Scotsman
The Scotsman
The Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh.As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s....
reported that Razzaq was
a founding member of the Taliban; that he headed the Taliban's customs department; and was later Interior Minister.
The May 11, 2003 article said that Razzaq was the number two in
a then new Taliban military command structure.