Afghan security forces captured intelligence data pointing at the Haqqani network during a raid in Kabul; Afghan parliament passes a vote of no confidence in two of its most senior Afghan ministers
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    • According to reports, Afghan security forces captured intelligence data pointing at the Haqqani network during a raid in Kabul which killed five insurgents and one wounded on August 2, 2012. The authorities said they had thwarted a massive attack. Soldiers from Afghanistan’s spy agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), launched the raid just after midnight, entering a single-story house compound on the fringes of Kabul which the insurgents were using as a base. The NDS noted that target maps and telephone numbers recovered from the compound had numbers for the Haqqani network.1

    In another development, reports noted that the Afghan parliament has passed a vote of no confidence in two of its most senior ministers, Interior Minister Besmillah Mohammadi and Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, and demanded that they be replaced. They were criticised for failing to prevent cross-border shelling from Pakistan and security lapses that resulted in the assassinations of senior officials. President Karzai's office said he would make a decision on August 5, 2012 about the future of two ministers. It would be worthy noting that the President has the power to keep them in their posts for another month. In the past, he has retained his ministers for even longer. 2

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