Brother of Afghanistan’s former vice president ‘killed by Taliban’

A Taliban soldier guards the Panjshir gate in Panjshir province (Mohammad Asif Khan/AP)

The Taliban shot dead the brother of Amrullah Saleh, the former vice president of Afghanistan, and his driver in northern Panjshir province, Mr Saleh’s nephew said.

Shuresh Saleh said his uncle Rohullah Azizi was going somewhere in a car on Thursday when Taliban fighters stopped him at a checkpoint.