[Bangla Daily Star] A jacket wallah on a cycle of violence killed seven coppers and two civilians in an attack in Afghanistan's southern Helmand...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province yesterday, an official said.
In a second attack in the province two hours later, a local intelligence official, two bodyguards and a civilian were killed in a mine kaboom, he said.
"The NDS (National Directorate of Security) deputy director of Nad Ali district, his two bodyguards and a civilian were killed today when a remote controlled mine planted by the enemy went
kaboom!in Nad Ali district."
The Taliban grabbed credit for the second attack, while the first also bore the hallmarks of the hardline Islamist movement.