Kandahar/Kabul - An Afghan parliamentarian and renowned chieftain from the southern Kandahar province was assassinated overnight by unknown gunmen, while a militant commander believed to be involved in last year's kidnapping of two German engineers was killed in a coalition operation, officials said Saturday. The militant commander by the name of Mullah Nizamuddin was killed in a US-led coalition forces operation, officials of the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
Dr Abdul Hakim Ashir, chief of the Media and Public Relations Department in the interior ministry, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur
