Burhanullah Shinwari was the deputy chairman of the
upper house of Afghanistan's legislature.
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In July 2008 he led a delegation of legislators to investigate the
Deh Bala wedding party bombing
The Haska Meyna wedding party airstrike was an attack by United States military forces on 6 July 2008, in which 47 Afghans were killed. The group was escorting a bride to a wedding ceremony in the groom's village in Haska Meyna District of Nang ...
, an incident where American helicopter fired on a
wedding party, killing 47, mostly women and children.
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Pashtun people
Living people
Members of the House of Elders (Afghanistan)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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