A renegade Afghan militia commander agreed to be brought to the capital Kabul on Friday after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire 10 days ago halted his forces' march on the city of Herat, a government spokesman said. Ethnic Tajik politicians have heaped criticism on President Hamid Karzai over his government's response to commander Amanullah Khan's attack earlier this month on the Tajik-led provincial government in Afghanistan's far west, bordering Iran. Karzai, who belongs to the ethnic Pashtun majority is set to fight an election on October 9 that will be dominated by both security and ethnic issues. "Commander Amanullah was brought to Kabul on the basis of the government's and his own agreement," Jawed Ludin, a spokesman for Karzai, told Reuters. Amanullah, a Pashtun, was brought by air with the assistance of the U.S. military to Kabul, but the spokesman declined to say whether he was under some form of arrest. Ludin would only say that Amanullah had been moved to prevent further violence, and more steps would follow. He also declined to comment when asked whether Herat's Tajik governor, Ismail Khan, would be summoned to the capital too. --More 2120 Local Time 1820 GMT
