Karzai plans admn shake-up after anti-US protests

They said Karzai, who returned home from Brussels early Saturday, was likely to replace the governor and police chief of eastern Nangarhar province where the bloody rioting started on Wednesday.

Officials told AFP Karzai held immediate consultations with officials on the security situation, which has seen the worst anti-US violence since the fall of the Taliban more than three years ago.

Police opened fire to control a mob that torched the buildings of several aid agencies, the Pakistani consulate and the governor's house in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province.