Senior aide to President Karzai killed

A arch abettor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Jan Mohammad Khan, has been asleep in an advance on his home in Kabul, say officials.Lawmaker Hasham Atanwal additionally died in the attack, said police, as gunmen stormed the abode in the capital.The adventure comes beneath than a anniversary afterwards Mr Karzai's brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, was assassinated.Earlier Nato armament handed over the arena of Bamiyan to Afghan aegis forces, the aboriginal move of its kind.Some time afterwards the advance on Mr Khan, the arch of badge said aegis armament and the attackers were still exchanging blaze about his abode in the western Karti Char commune of the city.Interior admiral agent Siddiq Siddiqi said at atomic two gunmen had been complex in the attack, which began at about 8pm bounded time (1530 GMT).Mr Khan is a above governor of Uruzgan arena and is appear to accept been a abutting adviser to Mr Karzai.He was as important as AWK (Ahmed Wali Karzai)," a arch government official told the AFP account agency.Ahmed Wali Karzai was attempt asleep by his babysitter in southern Kandahar arena aftermost week.