Arsalan Rahmani Daulat, the Key Afghan peace mediator, was assassinated 13 May 2012. The assassination of Daulat has raised the fears of disruption in the already fragile peace talk.
Rahmani, until April 2012 was the acting head of President Hamid Karzai's Higher Peace Council. Rahmani had received tremendous success in accelerating the peace negotiation over the past few months. He had reached out to key commanders across southern and south-eastern Afghanistan, in an effort to secure a peace deal ahead of the planned withdrawal of the bulk of western troops in the country in 2014.
Earlier the hardliners had also mowed down Burhanuddin Rabbani, the head of the Higher Peace Council and the country's former president.
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