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| Gunmen Kill Five in Kabul Sufi Mosque Attack |
| 2015-03-08 |
| [AnNahar] Gunmen attacked a Sufi mosque in Kabul on Saturday evening, killing at least five people and leaving six others maimed, police officials said. "A group of gunnies entered (a Sufi mosque)... and opened fire, killing five people and injuring six others," Kabul police front man Hashmat Stanikzai told AFP. Deputy interior ministry front man Najib Danish confirmed the details of the attack, which took place at around 7:00 pm (1430 GMT), and the toll. Stanikzai said an investigation had been launched to "identify the attackers and the motive behind the attack". The rare attack on Kabul's Sufi minority shattered a relative calm that had descended on the Afghan capital in recent weeks. Though no group grabbed credit for the attack in its immediate aftermath, Afghanistan remains plagued by a Taliban insurgency more than 13 years after the krazed killer group was ousted from power. NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ended its combat mission in late December, leaving a residual force to carry on a training and support mission to Afghanistan's 350,000 security forces, who now lead the fight against the Taliban. The election last year of President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. , who pledged to make peace talks a priority, as well as supportive signals from Pakistain which has long held significant influence with the Taliban, has boosted hopes for possible dialogue. |
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