Koenigs to depart

Pajhwok yesterday confirms a report last week in Frankfurter Allgemeine that Koenigs will head home after two years as SRSG.

Koenigs to leave Afghanistan by year end: Tom Koenigs, the Special Representative of UN Secretary-General to Afghanistan, would leave the post at the end of the year.  Talking to reporters outside the UN Security Council, Koenigs said he had written to the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, a few weeks back that he wanted to leave the post at the end of the year. Koenigs, said at the age of 64, he wanted to go back home.