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More than 2,000 Afghans rally, denounce Pakistan
 [Dawn] More than 2,000 Afghans are rallying on the last day of a Shia Mohammedan holiday to mourn and denounce Pakistain for the deadly bombing at a shrine in Kabul that killed 56 and maimed more than 160 people.The crowd gathered Friday on the west side of Kabul on the last day of Ashoura. The holiday commemorates the death in the seventh century of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson. His death in a battle outside Karbala in Iraq sealed Islam's historical Sunni-Shiite split. The protesters are denouncing Tuesday's suicide kaboom in Kabul. It was the first major sectarian attack in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime a decade ago. Some of the speakers at the rally blamed neighboring Pakistain for the bombing. Posted by: Fred 2011-12-10 |
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