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Summary Afghan president led thousands of mourners in the volatile south to bury his brother on Wednesday.
Tight security arrangements were made on the occasion of funeral of President Karzai’s influential brother, whose assassination on Tuesday left a power vacuum in the volatile southern province of Kandahar.Ahmad Wali Karzai, one of the most powerful and controversial men in southern Afghanistan, was killed by a trusted family security guard at his home in Kandahar city.The killing cast a pall over Kandahar, which has been a focus of violence in recent months as the Taliban came under pressure in surrounding districts from a wave of extra troops ordered in by U.S. President Barack Obama in 2009.
