Qari Ziauddin (died October 5, 2010) was a local militia leader in

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, the province in the extreme Northeast. According to

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's ''Daily Times'' Qari Ziauddin and five of his men were captured on February 12, 2004 following a gun-battle over the drug trade. Police commander

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Sayed Akbar Sayedi said that Qari Ziauddin had engaged with Musadeq, another powerful local militia leader and the mayor of

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. According to the

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20 civilians were killed during the fight. Musadeq was not taken into custody. '' CTV'' quoted Deputy Interior Minister Hilalludin Hillal, who stated the two militia leaders had clashed many times in the past. Several hundred troops from the central government were sent to quell the fighting, which broke out February 5, 2004. The central government's own army only numbered 7,000 troops. The ISAF International Security Assistance Force had 200

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troops stationed in Badakhshan, but the

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had been unable to reach them, for comment, and stated that they were not believed to be involved in the incident.

Death

On October 5, 2010, an airstrike in northwestern

killed

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leader, Qari Ziauddin, who was the Taliban's shadow governor in

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province. He was "directly associated with and took direct operational orders from a Pakistan-based leader of the northern front," according to NATO's

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. When coalition forces went to the site of the strike in Faryab province, armed people threatened them, "the security force engaged and killed four insurgents and confirmed Qari Ziauddin was killed during the airstrike," according to the International Security Assistance Force.CNN: Airstrike kills Taliban leader in northwestern Afghanistan
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