Known Afghan leader and Chief of High Peace Commission Pir Syed Ahmad Gillani lost his last breath after a prolong illness in Ghazi Amanullah Khan hospital at Kabul on Saturday. He was around 84.
Pir Syed Ahmad Gillani’s Jinaza Salat will be held at Presidential Palace in Kabul today morning and later his body will be brought to ancestral graveyard at Soorakhrood near to Jalalabad on the same day.
Belong to well famous spiritual family, Pir Syed Ahmad Gillani also known as Pir Affendi was counted amongst moderate Afghan Jihadi leaders and was amongst pioneers of negotiated solution to Afghan conflict. During war against former Soviet Union, Pir Syed Ahmad Gillani had established National Islamic Front of Afghanistan (NIFA) alkso called as Mili islami Mahaz of Afghanistan.
Soon after signing of Geneva Accord on April 14, 1988 last, Pir Syed Gillani has ordered all his party fighters to stop fighting and he along with fellow Afghan leaders former President Prof. Sibghat Ullah Mujaddadi and late Maulvi Nabi Mohammadi initiated efforts for a political solution. In this respect, they had asked for convening of Loya Jirga, establishment of broad based government and declaration of general amnesty. He was made as Foreign Affairs Minister in Afghan Mujahideen government established in Rawalpindi Islamabad with help of Pakistan and Saudi Arab in 1989.
