Af policewoman kills US advisor

An Afghan policewoman shot and killed an American adviser outside the police headquarters in Kabul on Monday, the latest in a rising tide of insider attacks by Afghans against their foreign allies, senior Afghan officials said.

The woman, identified as Afghan police Sgt Nargas, had entered a strategic compound in the heart of the capital and shot the adviser with a pistol as he came out of a small shop with articles he had just bought, Kabul Governor Abdul Jabar Taqwa said.

The woman was taken into Afghan custody shortly after the attack. Earlier, she had asked bystanders where the governor’s office was located, the governor said. As many Afghans, the policewoman uses only one name. A Nato command spokesman, US Air Force Lt Col Lester T Carroll, said the woman was arrested after the incident. The slain adviser was a contractor whose identity wasn’t immediately released.

The attack occurred outside the police headquarters, which also houses the governor’s office, courts and a prison. Kabul Deputy Police Chief Mohammad Daoud Amin said an investigation was under way.