Foreign Desk | February 25, 2003, Tuesday
Plane Crash Kills Afghan Cabinet Minister

(NYT)
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 4 , Column 3

Juma Muhammad Muhammadi, Afghanistan's minister of mines and industry, dies along with seven other people when their airplane crashes in Arabian Sea shortly after takeoff from Karachi, Pakistan (S) Afghanistan's minister of mines and industry died along with seven other people today when their airplane crashed in the Arabian Sea shortly after takeoff from the southern Pakistan port city of Karachi.

Juma Muhammad Muhammadi, who was in his late 60's, had returned home to help rebuild his country after the fall of the Taliban.