| A suspected Taliban assailant tossed a grenade into a Belgium-based aid group’s office in eastern Afghanistan, shattering windows but causing no injuries, an Afghan police official said Wednesday. The attack on the office of Solidarity Afghanistan occurred Tuesday in Jalalabad, capital of Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, said Jalalabad Police Chief Haji Ajab Shah. The grenade went off before the office had opened and no one was inside, Shah told The Associated Press by satellite telephone. There was no claim of responsibility. But Shah said "everybody knows that Taliban and al-Qaida do these things." Remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaida are believed to be active in southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan, where they’ve been blamed for attacks on government security forces and aid workers. Shah said the Belgian aid group helps build village roads in Nangarhar, which borders Pakistan. |