The local governor, security director and police officials traveled where the hostages were being held as part of the rapid negotiations that freed the hostages after roughly six hours of captivity, the reports said.
After that, under Fazluddin Agha, a formidable local governor, security improved, and foreign money has been poured into opening schools and clinics.Mr Agha was killed by a suicide-bomber in January, but his influence may help explain the relatively restrained reaction in Panjwai itself to the atrocity.
The ruling authority in Hit is headed by the military governor, the religious (legal) governor, the security governor and finally the administrative governor".
The protesters have demanded the resignation of governors and security chiefs in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, the punishment of abusive police officers and the release of people detained in the protests.
A12 A Purge in Afghanistan A day after the worst violence in a year in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai replaced governors and security officials in the provinces hardest hit by an intensifying pro-Taliban insurgency.
Meeting briefly with reporters before Mr. Ridge arrived, the group's lead governors on security issues, Mitt Romney, Republican of Massachusetts, and Ruth Ann Minner, Democrat of Delaware, said none of the leaders planned at these meetings to ask for more money.
One of the commanders who attacked Mr. Khan two weeks ago was brought to Kabul on Friday as the first step in that plan, which aims to disarm the remaining militias in the region and to install new governors and security officials in Herat and neighboring provinces.
More than half the country's governors, citing security concerns, said they would refuse Syrian refugees.
A drumbeat of opposition against allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S. intensified Monday as more than half the country's governors, citing security concerns, said they would refuse to accept Syrian refugees into their states following the Paris attacks, which President Obama said "would be a betrayal of our values".
Dean Pagani, Mr. Rowland's chief of staff, said, "Vinnie DeRosa had 20 years of experience as a state trooper, eight years as head of the governor's security detail, and the fact that he has a personal relationship with the governor should not be counted against him".
