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Additional information
Date of birth:
32 Years old
Village/Town of birth:
Province of birth:
Nangarhar: Unknown
Gender:
Male
Ethnicity:
Pashtun
Education:
Lawyer and AUAF Lecturor
Date of the main incident:
August, 24 2016
Place of the main incident:
American University of Afghanistan, PD 6, Kabul.
Related incident:
Incident description
On August 24, 2016, suspected Taliban attackers stormed the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul using a car bomb and automatic weapons. The assault resulted in the deaths of sixteen people, including eight university students, one university policeman, and three security guards. Additionally, fifty to fifty-three individuals were injured, some critically. Afghan Special Forces killed three of the attackers. This incident marked the first direct attack on the university, although two professors had been kidnapped just outside the campus a few weeks earlier. Both Taliban and ISIL-KP were suspected though no group or individual claimed the responsibility for the attack.
Alleged type of harm
Alleged type of crimes
Province:
Kabul: Kabul
Latitude:
34.5168788437339
Longitude:
69.1499999975304
Latitude: 34.5168788437339
Longitude: 69.1499999975304
" Naqib Khpulwak, 32, was a Fulbright Scholar at Old Dominion University and Middlebury Institute for International Studies with a Bachelor of Law & Political Science from Nangarhar University. As a research fellow at Stanford Law School in 2013, Naqib worked on Stanford’s Afghanistan Legal Education Project, developing portions of Afghanistan’s first legal education curriculum that he later taught in the AUAF classroom. Naqib also managed the rule of law program in Afghanistan sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace, which included initiatives to strengthen the ability of civil society organizations to serve as observers in community courts and to analyze and advocate on constitutional issues. He was a popular teacher and mentor at AUAF, a leader in the Afghan legal community, and deeply dedicated to his students. Naqib was preparing to further his education at Oxford University in the Spring. He had already been accepted, paid his fees and even bought his textbooks.
Latitude: 34.5168788437339
Longitude: 69.1499999975304
On August 24, 2016, suspected Taliban attackers stormed the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul using a car bomb and automatic weapons. The assault resulted in the deaths of sixteen people, including eight university students, one university policeman, and three security guards. Additionally, fifty to fifty-three individuals were injured, some critically. Afghan Special Forces killed three of the attackers. This incident marked the first direct attack on the university, although two professors had been kidnapped just outside the campus a few weeks earlier. Both Taliban and ISIL-KP were suspected though no group or individual claimed the responsibility for the attack.
" Naqib Khpulwak, 32, was a Fulbright Scholar at Old Dominion University and Middlebury Institute for International Studies with a Bachelor of Law & Political Science from Nangarhar University. As a research fellow at Stanford Law School in 2013, Naqib worked on Stanford’s Afghanistan Legal Education Project, developing portions of Afghanistan’s first legal education curriculum that he later taught in the AUAF classroom. Naqib also managed the rule of law program in Afghanistan sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace, which included initiatives to strengthen the ability of civil society organizations to serve as observers in community courts and to analyze and advocate on constitutional issues. He was a popular teacher and mentor at AUAF, a leader in the Afghan legal community, and deeply dedicated to his students. Naqib was preparing to further his education at Oxford University in the Spring. He had already been accepted, paid his fees and even bought his textbooks.
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