Officials in southern Afghanistan were at odds Sunday over a man some believe collected sensitive information by impersonating a parliament member in the violence-wracked country. The unidentified man claimed to be a senator from Kabul and managed to meet the governor, police chief, and head of intelligence of the restive southern province of Kandahar last week.
"He showed a fake letter from the senate to the governor of Kandahar who then took him to a lot of places he should not have been," Mohammad Alam Ezdyar, deputy chairman of Afghanistan's senate told AFP.
Radio Free Europe cited Bismallah Afghanmal, who represents Kandahar in parliament's upper house, saying the supposed senator was taken to several districts in the province where he was given "every possible piece" of security information.
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