On Tuesday, October 12, a civil activist was shot by unknown gunmen in the city of Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province.

The civil activist is known as Abdul Rahman Mawen.

Hours ago, he was killed in the Chihel Metri area of the 4th district of Jalalabad city, sources say.

The attackers fled the area, according to the sources’ information.

ShadNoor Mazloom Yar, the brother of Abdul Rahman confirmed and reported the killing of his brother to 8am Daily. However, he hasn’t given more details.

The Taliban hasn’t told anything about the case yet.

No one or group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Abdul Rahman Mawen is originally from Laghman who had been living in Nangarhar for 15 years, and he had civil activities.

A prominent civil society activist was gunned down in Afghanistan's restive eastern Nangarhar province bordering Pakistan on Tuesday amid an ongoing targeted assassination spree.

Eye-witnesses told Anadolu Agency the incident took place during the morning rush hour in the provincial capital, Jalalabad city. Shad Noor, the brother of the deceased activist Abdul Rahmad Mawin, has also confirmed the incident.

According to the local Killid Radio, Mawin was driving his car when the assailants riding an auto-rickshaw opened fire at him before fleeing from the spot in the 4th district of the city.

There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack so far.

With the rise to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the assassination spree has not ceased in the war-ravaged country.

The Taliban last week claimed dismantling a Daesh/ISIS hideout in the capital Kabul, blamed for many of such attacks.

But days after that the group claimed orchestrating targeted killings in Nangarhar and Parwan provinces as well as a massive suicide bombing in a Shia community mosque in the northern Kunduz province, killing more than 50 people.

Prior to that, at least eight people were killed in another Daesh-claimed suicide attack at a mosque in Kabul where people had gathered for a memorial service for the late mother of Zabihullah Mujahid, acting deputy information minister in the interim Taliban administration.

Many Afghans wearily refer to the uptick in IS attacks as the start of a "new game" in the country. In Jalalabad, it's not just the Taliban who are being targeted. Civil society activist Abdul Rahman Mawen was driving home from a wedding earlier this month when gunmen opened fire on his vehicle. His two young sons, aged 10 and 12 cowered in the car as their father was shot dead. IS issued a short statement claiming responsibility.

Speaking from the family's home, his brother, Shad Noor, is despondent. "From the bottom of my heart, when the Taliban took power we were very happy and optimistic: that corruption, murders, explosions would be eradicated," he says.

"But now we are realising a new phenomenon is being imposed upon us, by the name of Daesh."