Regional and tribal Afghan leaders rose up and formed an alliance known as the Eastern Shura to oust the TalibaninKhowst Province and Nangarhar Province, during the War in Afghanistan.[1][2][3][4] Mary Anne Weaver, writing in The New York Times on the fourth anniversary of al Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001, described the formation of the Eastern Shura as the result of surrender negotiations on November 13, 2001, between Mohammad Yunus Khalis and Osama bin Laden.
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| Haji Abdul Qadeer |
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| Hazrat Ali |
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| Ezatullah |
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| Hajji Mohammed Zaman |
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| Rostom Sherzad |
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| Haji Zaman Ghamsharik |
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| Pir Baksh Gardiwal |
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| Haji Hayat Ullah | |
| Sher Gulan |
The Eastern Shura – which comprises the provisional governments of Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar and Kapisa provinces...
The last time bin Laden was seen in Jalalabad was the evening of Nov. 13, when he, along with Khalis's son, Mujahid Ullah, and other tribal leaders negotiated a peaceful hand-over of power from the Taliban to a caretaker government. Under its terms, Khalis would take temporary control of the city until the formation of a newly appointed U.S.-backed government. He, of course, made certain that the Eastern Shura, as the government is called, was stacked with men who owed their loyalty to him. Hajji Abdul Qadir, his former military commander, became Nangarhar Province's governor again.
U.S. state-controlled media put bin Laden in a redoubt in the mountains of Tora Bora, a stone's throw west of the Khyber Pass, in mid-November 2001. According to this official account, corrupt Eastern Shura militia let bin Laden and hundreds of other al-Qaeda fighters escape. "There were only 21 bedraggled al-Qaeda fighters who were taken prisoners," writes The Christian Science Monitor.
No clear leader, following death of Abdul Qadir; Qadir's son appointed Jalalabad governor after Qadir's death.
The third arrived from Sorubi, where Ezatullah, a local commander with only one name, has created his own fief.
The weapons I had were for a group of people in the Noorgal government, Gulan, Said Jalal and Haji Kornai. I gave them back these weapons. These three commanders are supporting the American Forces and they are working with them in Jalalabad.fast mirror
