Journalist’s Kids Killed By Serena Guards?

Five-year-old Omar’s body was riddled by over 20 bullets – how many can a pistol fire? Only three days after Sardar Ahmad, a senior Afghan journalist, was callously murdered with his wife, Humaira, daughter, six-year-old Nelofar, and son, Omar, details about who exactly shot at the family while they were dinning at a luxury hotel…

Karzai Wants Weak Head For A Strong Afghan State

“He is very good in administering bureaucracy and doing day-to-day stuff,” a senior aide to President Hamid Karzai told me about Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, a former finance minister now a presidential hopeful. “But he’s not a consensus-builder, a deal-broker and most importantly he’s not someone you could easily control,” he added. Off the record discussions…