Afghan parliament vie-speaker linked to the cash and gold smuggling dismissed

Afghan high-ranking politician Mohammad Mirza Katawazai, who found himself at the center of a scandal in Tajikistan involving US$15 million in cash and some 90 kilograms of gold bars seized from smugglers at the Dushanbe airport in November last year, was relieved of his post of Vice-Speaker of the Wolosi Jirga (Afghanistan’s lower house of parliament). asiaplustj.info »