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 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's government fired a provincial governor days after he said Afghans are distancing themselves from President Hamid Karzai and that a "vacuum of authority" is allowing the Taliban, al-Qaida and other groups to gain power.
Abdul Sattar Murad, the governor of Kapisa province, was fired because "he sowed discord" and provided U.S.-led coalition troops with wrong information about the people of the province, said a statement from the Ministry of Interior, which appoints the country's 34 governors.
The removal came only days after Murad gave an interview to Newsweek magazine in which he was highly critical of the central government.
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