Interior Ministry's official representative: Afghan president's brother shot dead at home

Azerbaijan, Baku, July 12 /Trend D. Khatinoglu / The head of the county board of the Afghan province of Kandahar and the Afghan president's brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, was shot dead at his home in the area controlled by the police department No 6, deputy spokesman for the Interior Minister Najib Nikzad told Trend over phone from Kabul.
He said that the police cordoned off the house and surrounding area. They are searching for evidence that might point to a possible killer. However, they have no information about the offender, Nikzad said.
TV channel "Al Jazeera" reported earlier, referring to the governor of the Kandahar province that the president's brother Ahmad Wali Karzai was killed today in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
The Afghani presidential office is beginning an investigation of the murder of the President's brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, the deputy official spokesman of the President’s office, Siyamek Herawi, told Trend over phone from Kabul.
Ahmad Wali Karzai, who was an influential figure in the power structure of the Kandahar province, has been repeatedly accused by the Western media of producing and transporting drugs and having relations with a drug mafia of the eastern Afghan provinces.
Earlier assassination attempts on his life have been made but without injuries, RIA Novosti reported.