Afghan president sacks top cops after riots
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has fired dozens of top police officials, including the Kabul police chief, days after anti-US riots raged out of control in the capital for hours, officials said Saturday.
About 34 police commanders have been sacked and nearly 50 others were shifted to other posts, a high-ranking interior ministry official said under condition of anonymity.
The president's office said the reshuffle was part of long-planned reform of the police service that had been launched before Monday's riots.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. "It was done under the interior ministry reform programme which has been under way for months," said Khaleeq Ahmad, one of the spokesmen for the president.
But the official in the interior ministry, which handles police matters, said some of the changes were expedited after Monday's riots and others were prompted by the violence.
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