Rais Karzai amzika mdogo wake

Rais wa Afganistan, Hamid Karzai akiwa mwenye majonzi wakati wa mazishi ya mdogo wake leo.

Rais Karzai (mwenye kanzu nyeupe na koti jeusi) akiwa kwenye maziko ya mdogo wake leo.

Ahmed aliuawa jana kwa kupigwa risasi na mlinzi wake.

Mdogo wa Rais Karzai, Ahmed Wali Karzai ( kulia) enzi za uhai wake.

Shah Wali Karzai akifika eneo la mazishi kumzika kaka yake.

Kikundi cha Taliban kimesema, kimemuua Ahmed kwa kuwa alikuwa anashirikiana na mataifa ya magharibi na kwamba, alikuwa analipwa.

Soma hapo chini

Afghan President Hamid Karzai was joined by thousands of mourners at the funeral of his half brother - shot dead the day before by a close associate.

Ahmed Wali Karzai was assassinated on Tuesday by one of his closest confidantes - a man from his own tribe and hometown whom he had travelled with and worked alongside for seven years.

The president, tribal leaders, government officials and others attended first a morning prayer service in the provincial capital, Kandahar, before travelling to the family's ancestral home village of Karz for the funeral.

A sea of mourners surged toward the grave as a large wooden coffin, adorned with red flowers was brought forward.

Helicopters circled overhead as the coffin was lowered into the earth.Mr Karzai - surrounded by a ring of security men - was on the fringe of the throng of mourners, tears streaming down his cheeks.

The president approached the grave, climbed into it and had to be pulled out by his shoulders as his grief got the better of him.

Shock: Afghans cover the grave of Ahmad Wali Karzai with earth after he was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards.

Shortly after the funeral in Karz, Mr Karzai held a press conference in the provincial capital.

He said: 'My message for them (the Taliban) is that my countrymen, my brothers, should stop killing their own people.

'It is easy to kill and everyone can do it, but the real man is the one who can save people's lives.'

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for Wali Karzai's killing, but Afghan officials have said it is unclear whether he was shot by insurgents or died as a result of an internal dispute.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that insurgent fighters killed Wali Karzai because he cooperated with British, U.S. and Canadian forces in the south.

He said: 'He was aligned with foreign occupiers,' before describing him as a 'puppet' of the West and claiming he was on the CIA payroll.