The attacker let 'er rip in a market place in Ghazni province, two days after another bomber struck outside government buildings in the north of Afghanistan killing 14 people including a provincial politician.
"At around 5:00 pm, a 18-year-old suicide kaboomer went
kaboom!in a market in the district of Muqur," Ghazni province deputy governor Mohammad Ali Ahmadi told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"As a result, four anti-Taliban fighters and three non-combatants were killed and 14 others injured."
Local army front man Nazifullah confirmed the incident and corpse count to AFP.
There are many small bands of tribal militia across Afghanistan who fight against the Taliban Death Eaters who were toppled from power in 2001. The groups deny receiving weapons and support from the government.
The Taliban launched their annual "spring offensive" last month vowing to use suicide kaboom
s to inflict maximum casualties and warning Afghans working for President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
's regime to distance themselves from the government.
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...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
combat missions will finish in Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and foreign troops have already begun to withdraw from the battlefield as Afghan police and army take over the fight against the Death Eaters.
More than 11 years after the Taliban regime was ousted, efforts to seek a political settlement ending the violence have so far made little progress, but pressure is growing ahead of the NATO withdrawal.
Also on Wednesday, officials said that unknown gunnies dragged the father of Afghanistan's cricket captain from his car on the outskirts of Jalalabad city and have taken him hostage.
Mohammad Nabi, who took over the captaincy of the team in March, confirmed that his father, Khobai Isakhel, had been kidnapped in the eastern province of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
on Tuesday.
"I have no idea who the kidnappers might be, they have not contacted me," Nabi told AFP, declining to give any more details.
Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, front man for the Nangarhar provincial government, said: "Yesterday at around 10:00 am, unknown armed man seized him from his car. No trace of him has yet been found."
Kidnapping is rife in Afghanistan's major cities, with criminal gangs demanding large ransoms for the release of hostages.