A senior Afghan government official said today Saudi authorities had not tracked down three officials sought over the murder last week of Afghanistan's aviation minister.
The interim government has said two of the three men, who fled to Saudi Arabia on a plane carrying Haj pilgrims after the murder at Kabul airport, had been detained and the third was being hunted.
"So far, the three suspects have not been arrested in Saudi Arabia. Efforts are under way [by the Saudis] to catch them and we will start questioning them as soon as they are sent," Labour and Social Affairs minister Mir Wais Sadeq said.
Last Thursday's murder of Minister Mr Abdul Rahman has prompted speculation of a rift in interim leader Mr Hamid Karzai's multi-ethnic administration and comes against a backdrop of growing lawlessness and factional fighting.