Read details here, in the linked article you will find some very interesting details about the fallout form this:
Ahmed Wali Karzai, a powerful brother of the Afghan president, has been shot dead by a long-serving bodyguard, depriving the US of a linchpin in its strategy for containing the Taliban as Nato troops withdraw.
The assassin opened fire at point blank range in Mr Karzai’s heavily-fortified compound in the southern city of Kandahar on Tuesday before himself being gunned down by bodyguards, officials said.
The killing sent shockwaves through Kabul and Washington, underscoring the vulnerability of President Hamid Karzai’s inner circle and raising fears that a power struggle will erupt in the south, the focal point of the insurgency.
