President Hamid Karzai may turn to foreign experts for help if Afghan investigators cannot track down the killers of the country’s vice president and key Pashtun leader.

Afghan leader Hamid Karzai today called on international peacekeepers to help track down the killers of a vice president murdered in the heart of the capital.

President Hamid Karzai may turn to foreign experts for help if Afghan investigators cannot track down the killers of the country’s vice president and key Pashtun leader.

Wrapped in an Afghan flag, the body of slain Afghan vice president Abdul Qadir was carried today on the shoulders of his family members into the Eid Gah mosque in the capital Kabul where funeral prayers were said.

Two gunmen firing assault rifles assassinated Afghan vice president Abdul Qadir as he was being driven from a government ministry in the capital, Kabul, today.

Afghan vice president Abdul Qadir was assassinated today, the interior minister said.

US bombers are attacking al-Qaida's Tora Bora cave complex as the hunt for Osama bin Laden is stepped up.

United States warplanes have been attacking the Tora Bora cave complex in eastern Afghanistan.

Anti-Taliban Afghan tribesmen, supported by US bomb attacks, are reportedly advancing on the southern city of Kandahar today in an effort to rout the Taliban from its last remaining stronghold.