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Afghanistan
Afghans suffer deadliest Ramazan since 2001
2017-06-25
[DAWN] Afghanistan has suffered its deadliest Ramazan since the US-led invasion in 2001 with over 200 killed and hundreds maimed, according to an AFP count based on official figures.

The streets of Kabul were quiet on Saturday ahead of the Eidul Fitr festival, which marks the end of Ramazan, amid fears of further attacks.

"It was the deadliest month for pious Afghans who were all fasting," political analyst, General Abdul Wahid Taqat told AFP.

As Ramazan began on May 27, a Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
boom-mobileer targeting a CIA-funded Afghan militia group left 13 people dead and injured six in eastern Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
A sewage tanker filled with explosives detonated just days later in the city's fortified diplomatic quarter, killing more than 150 and wounding hundreds -- marking the deadliest attack in Kabul in recent years.

The carnage left the Afghan capital shaken and hundreds of protesters erupted into the streets following the bombing, calling for officials to resign.

Clashes between protesters and authorities left at least six people dead while at least seven more were killed when jacket wallahs tore through a row of mourners at a funeral for one of the protesters.

On Thursday as Ramazan was drawing to a close, a Taliban boom-mobile struck a bank in Lashkar Gah, capital of the volatile Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province. Around 34 people queuing to withdraw their salaries died.

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