UK ambassador 'murder plot' foiled

A plot to assassinate the former British ambassador to Afghanistan was foiled, the UK’s current representative in Kabul has said.

US investigators suspect the ex-governor of Kapisa Province in the north of the country, Ghulam Qawis Abu Bakr, of involvement in the November 2009 plan to kill Mark Sedwill and his American and French counterparts, the Wall Street Journal reported.