Senior Karzai adviser killed in attack

A SENIOR adviser to Afghan president Hamid Karzai has been murdered along with an member of parliament visiting him at his Kabul home, a senior government official said yesterday.

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.