Kabul

KABUL - WikiLeaks' recently released secret cables have revealed that former Afghan Interior Minister Hanif Atmar was in panic over a scandal involving foreign contractors employed to train Afghan policemen who took drugs and paid for young "dancing boys" to entertain them in northern parts of the country, and begged the US embassy to stop a journalist from publicising the story.

KABUL - Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has criticized a large-scale drug raid in which US forces and Russian drug agents took part, calling it a violation of Afghan sovereignty.

- Team leader Tom Little, 61, of Delmar, New York, had worked in Afghanistan since the late 1970s and was the "driving force" in the efforts of the International Assistance Mission, or IAM, to expand vision care in the country.

DENVER - Friends of the members of a medical team gunned down in Afghanistan said Sunday the doctors brought some of the first toothbrushes and eyeglasses villagers had ever seen and spent no time talking about religion as they provided medical care.

KABUL - India is set to resume its medical missions in Afghanistan after a fresh reassurance about the safety of its nationals in that country.