News Digest
UZBEK PRESIDENT APPOINTS NEW INTERIOR MINISTER
By empty (1/6/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbek President Islam Karimov issued a decree on 5 January appointing Bahodyr Matlyubov as interior minister. Lieutenant General Matlyubov, who previously held senior positions in the Interior Ministry and the State Customs Committee, replaces Zokir Almatov, who resigned in December for health reasons after more than a decade as interior minister (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 27 December 2005). The European Union named Almatov as one of many Uzbek officials placed on a visa-restriction list for their role in suppressing a protest in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijon in May.‘SEVEN TRIBALS DIE’ IN AFGHANISTAN
By empty (1/5/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At least seven people have been killed by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan\'s tribal region along the border with Afghanistan, authorities say. Assailants ambushed a car allegedly carrying suspected drug traffickers, killing the head of the group and six others in South Waziristan\'s Wana town. The attack took place close to the headquarters of the Pakistani Frontier Corps scouts, a paramilitary force.AFGHAN ‘SUICIDE ATTACK KILLS 10’
By empty (1/5/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At least 10 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the central Afghan province of Uruzgan, officials say. Many of those killed were civilians in a crowded market 500 metres from the governor\'s office in provincial capital Tarin Kowt. Dozens more were hurt.HEADMASTER KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
By empty (1/4/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A head teacher has been decapitated in an attack in the southern Afghan province of Zabul, local officials say. Provincial education director Mohammad Nabi Khushal blamed Taleban militants for the killing, which took place in the Zabul capital, Qalat. The dead man, Abdul Habib, was the headmaster of the Shaikh Mati High School in Qalat.Visit also
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