KABUL - The head of Afghanistan's High Office of Oversight and Anti Corruption (AHOOAC), Azizullah Lodin, said on Saturday that he sent a letter to the Attorney General's Office demanding the suspension of Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal as finance minister.
Mr. Lodin told TOLOnews that Afghan president Hamid Karzai ordered him to send the letter.

Mr. Zakhilwal is in hot water over accusations that he transferred large sums of money into overseas bank accounts. He claims he earned the money from consultancies before he became finance minister in 2009 and, after the allegations were made on Tolo TV, he asked the Attorney General's Office to investigate his finances.

Mr. Lodin, however, believes that Mr. Zakhilwal's position as head of the finance ministry hinders any such investigation.
Several Afghan lawmakers have also called for Mr Zakhilwal to be sacked. (Tolo News)