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http://article.wn.com/view/2011/07/18/Jan_Mohammad_Khan_adviser_to_Afghanistans_President_Hamid_Ka/
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Monday, 18 July 2011
Jan Mohammad Khan, adviser to Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai murdered
A TEAM of attackers have murdered a senior adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a raid on his Kabul home, along with a visiting lawmaker. Jan Mohammad Khan, the former governor of southern Uruzgan province and a key ally of the embattled president, was killed today in the attack along with an MP for Uruzgan, Mohammad Hashem Watanwal, said a police spokesman. The assassination comes less than a week after the president's half-brother Ahmed Wali Karzai was shot dead by a close friend at his home in the southern province of Kandahar in an attack claimed by the Taliban. Just hours before today's attack, a ceremony was held in central Bamyan...