The Afghan parliament sacked the minister of foreign affairs and two of his cabinet colleagues citing poor performance, Reuters reported.

It was reported that Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani, Public Works Minister Mahmood Baligh and Social Services Minister Nasreen Oryakhel all failed to win confidence votes in parliament and were declared to have been dismissed by the speaker.

According to some information, three ministers were dismissed for their performance and failure to spend all allocated budgetary funds on time.