...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
province, a volatile region bordering Pakistain, officials said.
"At around 6:20 pm this evening an kaboom happened in a volleyball field in Khairkot district of Paktika province. Initial information shows nine people, all of them civilians, have been killed," interior ministry front man Sediq Sediqqi told AFP.
The police chief of Paktika province, Zarawar Zahid, put the corpse count at 10, with 33 injuring including children.
"The enemy had placed explosives on a cycle of violence and detonated it on the edge of the volleyball playground and as a volleyball match was ongoing," he said.
A witness, Aref, told AFP: "It is like a bloodbath here, many people are lying dead or maimed."
In November last year, 57 people were killed when a suicide kaboom
destroyed a crowd watching a volleyball game in the same eastern province.Volleyball, like many other sports, was banned by the Taliban when they ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.
Paktika is considered a stronghold of the Haqqani network, a hardline bully boy group aligned with the Taliban.
The Haqqani network, which was designated a terrorist organization by the US in 2012, has been blamed for large-scale attacks on government and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
targets across Afghanistan as well as for many kidnappings and murders.
The latest incident, which follows a lull in attacks during the Moslem festival of Eid, underlines the challenges facing 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 came to power one year ago and who has accused Pakistain of links to deadly attacks that hit Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title
Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
last summer.