 Fresh Pakistani insurgent attacks across Afghanistan claimed nearly 20 more lives, officials said on Tuesday, adding to the death toll of around 300 killed in some of the heaviest fighting since the fall of the Taliban.
Many of the 300 have been Pakistanis Taliban, though, so do they count? |
Three policemen and 12 Taliban were killed when a convoy carrying a deputy provincial governor and a police chief came under attack in the south while three health workers and their driver died in a roadside bombing here. In another incident a doctor, two nurses and their driver were killed on Monday when a remote-controlled bomb exploded under their vehicle, officials said.
| Docs and nurses, that's the kind of target the Talibs favor, at least when they can't find a girls' school. |
Later, Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation into the US airstrikes on a small village that killed at least 16 civilians and asked to meet with the US commander of forces in Afghanistan. The president's office said that Karzai expressed "concern at the coalition forces' decision to bomb civilian areas" but also strongly condemned the "terrorists' act of cowardice" to use civilians as human shields.
| Can't have it both ways, Hamid. |
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