Gunmen Kill Friend of Afghan President
From Times Wire Reports
Masked gunmen killed an ethnic Pushtun politician known as a close friend of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.
Shah Alam Khan was traveling in a vehicle when two men in another car opened fire and seriously wounded him in Wana, the main town of Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal region. He died on the way to a hospital.
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