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Salahuddin Rabbani New Head of High Peace Council

Salahuddin Rabbani New  Head of High Peace Council

KABUL - Salahuddin Rabban is the new head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, replacing his father Burhanuddin Rabbani who was head of the council when he was assassinated by the Taliban last year.
The appointment was confirmed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday.

Salahuddin was Afghanistan's Ambassador to Turkey before he was appointed as acting chairman of Islamist political party Jamiat-e-Islami, the party his father led from 1968 to his death in 2011.
President Karzai, the first vice president Marshal Fahim, Governor of Balkh Atta Mohammed Noor, and member of Parliament Abdul Rasul Sayyaf made the new appointment, according to a statement from Karzai's press office.

Salahuddin is quoted in the statement as saying that Afghanistan would only reach stability through peace, and that for any peace to be brokered it must be an Afghan-led process or it will not have the trust of Afghans.
Salahuddin's father, Burhanuddin Rabbani, was assassinated on September 20 last year by a so-called Taliban messenger at his Kabul home in Wazir Akbar Khan.

The suicide attacker placed explosive devices in his turban and blew himself up while greeting Burhanuddin.

Burhanuddin was president of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996, and then became a member of parliament.
He was appointed head of the High Peace Council in October 2010 when it was first formed by Karzai in an effort to find a political solution for the decade long war in the country. (Tolo News)