Atiqullah Raufi was the chief of the secretariat of the
Supreme Court of Afghanistan
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He was assassinated as he was heading to work on December 13, 2014, around 9:00 a.m., in
Kabul, Afghanistan
Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...
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The
Taliban
The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state (polity), state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalist, m ...
claimed responsibility for the incident.
The attack was one in a series of attacks targeting Afghanistan's legal system in 2013–2015.
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See also
*Taliban insurgency
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References
2014 deaths
Year of birth missing
2014 in Afghanistan
Terrorist incidents in Afghanistan in 2014
Assassinations in Afghanistan
Supreme Court of Afghanistan
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