Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is to appoint General Abd al-Rashid Dustum as head of the country's fledgling army, a source close to Karzai has said.
Afghan authorities have put off an expected announcement of the date for the country's first post-Taliban parliamentary polls amid a row over electoral boundaries.
Forces of a renegade adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai have overrun the capital of a