KABUL: A senior adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been murdered along with a member of parliament visiting him at his Kabul home, a senior government official told AFP on Sunday.
Jan Mohammad Khan, the former governor of southern Uruzgan province and a key ally of the embattled president, was killed in an attack that was still ongoing, according to police in the area.
A senior police official said a second man was also killed — a member of parliament from Uruzgan, Mohammad Hashem Watanwal — and an interior ministry official confirmed there had been a second death.
The attack comes less than a week after the president’s half-brother Ahmed Wali Karzai was assassinated by a close friend at his home in the southern province of Kandahar, birthplace of the Taliban.
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