Karzai's younger brother

Ahmad Wali Karzai, the now dead governor of Kandahar province, was at one time the biggest drug dealer of not just Afghanistan, but the region. The whole time, he was on the payroll of the CIA. There have even been claims by US officers directly involved in drug operations in Afghanistan, about the CIA's ...

When he left, his half-brother Ahmad Wali Karzai ran the Chicago restaurant until he returned to Pakistan in 1992. He told the Chicago Tribune that it was the political talk of expatriates at the restaurant that got him “fired up” about politics. Qayum says that he and Mahmood did not get along as partners, ...

His half-brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, the head of the Kandahar Provincial Council and a man revealed to be on the CIA payroll, was shot dead in 2011. Mr Karzai's cousin, Hashmat, was killed by a suicide bomber in July. Mr Karzai himself narrowly survived several assassination attempts. He has built a ...

... was the head of a security company with major US contracts, and had been implicated by some family members in the killing of a cousin - a charge he denied. His own father was murdered by another family member 25 years ago. In 2011 Hamid Karzai's brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, was murdered in his ...

Ahmad Wali Karzai, his younger brother and lynchpin of his authority in the south, was gunned down on July 12 by his longtime confidant at his home in Kandahar. "The president's connection to Ahmad Wali was one of blood, but Jan Mohamed Khan was no less to him," Bakhtawar said. One of Khan's ...

Brother of Hamid Karzai, who was one of the most powerful people in the country, was hounded by controversy. 12 Jul 2011. Karzai, second from left, was effectively the governor of Kandahar and very influential in Afghanistan's south [AFP]. Ahmed Wali Karzai, the younger half-brother of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, ...

The half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been assassinated in Kandahar. Ahmad Wali Karzai, a leading power broker in the country's south, was shot dead at his home in a blow to Nato's battle against the Taliban in the area. He was shot twice by his long-time head of security, Sardar ...

Ahmad Wali Karzai: From waiter to “King of Kandahar”. Another family-run business, Watan Risk Management, is a major supplier of guards for NATO convoys that move from Pakistan to Afghanistan and from Kabul to Kandahar. Peter Goodspeed. Eighteen years ago, as manager of a family-run Afghan ...

In an interview with the BBC, Ahmad Wali Karzai accused "local enemies" and and the Western media of spreading malicious rumours about him. Mr Karzai, the leader of the provincial council in Kandahar, has been linked to the drug trade and organised crime. He has strenuously denied the allegations, ...