The report also listed 23 Foreign Ministry employees who are close relatives of current or former lawmakers, ministers or other ministry officials, as well as eight diplomats, including an ambassador, with ties to the top echelons of the administration of former President Hamid Karzai. [...] Wednesday, an insurgent attack on a checkpoint killed four police officers in northern Baghlan province, while a suicide car bomber killed a soldier in an attack on an army compound in eastern Logar province, authorities said.