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| Deadly car bomb explodes in Kabul stoking tension with Pakistan |
| 2015-08-11 |
[REUTERS] A boom-mobile went kaboom!near the entrance to Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... airport on Monday, killing at least five people and ratcheting up regional tensions, days after a series of suicide kabooms in the Afghan capital killed dozens of civilians and maimed hundreds more. The attacks, which follow a change of leadership in the Taliban, have dashed any hopes of an immediate resumption of peace talks with the government and suggest new leader Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansour intends to send a message that there will be no letup in the insurgency. They have also stoked tensions with neighboring Pakistain, the base of many leaders of the hardline Islamist Taliban movement, according to many in Afghanistan. President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. , who has made improving relations with Pakistain a priority on the grounds it may push the Taliban into peace talks, said that Islamabad had to act to cut off the bomb-making factories and suicide training camps being run from its side of the border. "We hoped for peace, but war is declared against us from Pak territory; this in fact puts into a display a clear hostility against a neighboring country," he said. The Taliban grabbed credit for Monday's suicide attack in a crowded area outside an airport checkpoint, saying it was targeting "foreign forces". A security official at the scene said the attack appeared to have been aimed at two armored cars, although it was not clear who was in the vehicles. |
| Posted by:Fred |