KABUL, May 3: Gunmen shot and killed a lawmaker who had briefly served as the country's prime minister during Afghanistan's civil war, officials said on Wednesday.

Abdul Saboor Farid, who was a member of Afghanistan's upper house of parliament, was shot outside his house in northern Kabul late on Wednesday, said Gen Zulmay Khan, Kabul province's deputy police chief.

Farid was Afghanistan's prime minister for one month in 1992, when the country plunged in a bitter civil war following the defeat of the Soviet army by the US-backed mujahideen fighters.

Farid was representative of the northern province of Kapisa. He was a senior mujahideen commander in the area, close to a renegade warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who now leads part of the insurgency against President Hamid Karzai and his foreign backers.—AP