Beijing, May 1 (Xinhua-ANI): Taliban militants ambushed and killed three people including the peace chief negotiator in the southern Helmand province 555 km south of Kabul on Wednesday, a local official said. “A group of Taliban rebels ambushed the car of Malim Shah Wali, the head of High Peace Council, at 10:00 a.m. local time today killing him along with two police on the spot and injured four others,” an official with the High Peace Council in the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, Mohammad Daud Farhang, told Xinhua. The policemen had served as bodyguards for the late Shah Wali. High Peace Council is a government-backed body which has been tasked to approach the anti-government militants and encourage them to give up fighting and resume normal life. Taliban militants who have repeatedly rejected any offer for peace talks with the government had launched their spring offensive codenamed “Khalid Bin Waleed” from April 28 and since then intensified their activities. (Xinhua-ANI)
