Afghanistan's former president Burhanuddin Rabbani assassinated - in pictures
1987: Rabbani, leader of the Afghan Jamaat-i-Islami (Islamic Society) party, listens to mujahideen in Peshawar, PakistanPhotograph: Dimitri Kochko/AFP1986: Afghan rebel leader Burhanuddin Rabbani meets US president Ronald Reagan in the Oval OfficePhotograph: Cynthia Johnson/Time & Life Images/Getty Images1998: Speaking to journalists at Faizabad airstrip. Rabbani was ousted from power by the Taliban in 1996Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images
2001: Rabbani emerges from the Pul-e-Khishti mosque in Kabul after Friday prayers surrounded by United Front bodyguards and supportersPhotograph: Brennan Linsley/AP2001: Rabbani salutes the Afghan flag as he reviews Northern Alliance troops in a training campPhotograph: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters2001: Afghan leader Hamid Karzai (right) holding a doctorate degree to be presented to former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani during the inauguration of the new Afghan interim government in KabulPhotograph: Jimin Lai/AFP/Getty ImagesMarch 2011: Burhanuddin Rabbani, former Afghan president and head of the High Peace Council addresses delegates as the council meets in KabulPhotograph: S. Sabawoon/EPASeptember 20, 2011: An Afghan policeman keeps journalists away from the Kabul house of former president Burhanuddin RabbaniPhotograph: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images
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