KABUL (Pajhwok): A primary military court has sentenced a former Public Order Police commander in the north to 10 years in prison and fined him 8.6 million afghanis on corruption charges, a well-placed source said on Sunday.
The former commander, Haseebullah Qureshi, was removed from his official position last year and the Shaheen Military Corps had said he would be tried over alleged corruption.
A source in the Ministry of Defense, wishing anonymity, said Qureshi should have been tried in Mazar-i-Sharif but . . .
