Panah Khan Panjshiri Explained

Commander Panah Khan was one of the top commanders of Ahmed Shah Massoud's Jamiat-e Islami during the civil war in Afghanistan. He is reportedly deceased.^[1]

Soviet resistance

On 18 July 1986, a regime-staged court proceeding in Kabul sentenced Panah Khan to death in absentia, along with other resistance commanders Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ismail Khan, Alaudin Khan, Haqqani and Sayed Mansour Hussainyar.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Human Rights Watch . Blood Stained Hands: Past atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan's Legacy of Impunity . 2005. pdf . 22 November 2009.
2. Web site: History: 1980s . Embassy of Afghanistan - Tokyo . 25 November 2009.