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| Afghanistan |
| Ghani vows tough action after attack on eve of Kabul talks |
| 2016-01-19 |
| [DAWN] JALALABAD: At least 14 people were killed on Sunday when a jacket wallah struck a gathering of tribal elders at a prominent politician's home in Jalalabad, prompting Afghanistan's Caped 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. .. to warn that the security forces will go after the culprits with all their strength. "When snuffies lose the ability to fight face-to-face with our security forces, then they target public places and kill our innocent people," Mr Ghani said in a statement. "The government will fight those who shed the blood of our innocent people." The Taliban denied responsibility for the bombing, which also left 13 people injured on the eve of a second round of four-country negotiations aimed at restarting peace talks with the Death Eaters. The carnage came during a jirga of tribal leaders at the home of politician Obaiduallah Shinwari, who escaped unscathed. "Fourteen people were killed and 13 others injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in the house of Shinwari," Najibullah Kamawal, the health director 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.. province, said. Ambulances rushed to the scene, which was littered with pieces of human flesh, sandals and charred debris. Mr Shinwari is a well-known member of Nangarhar's provincial council and his family is said to be actively involved in local politics. The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... also condemned the killings, reiterating its plea to all gangs to stop the deliberate targeting of civilians. The bombing is the second deadly attack in the city since Wednesday, when the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group's murderous Moslems grabbed credit for a four-hour gun and bomb siege targeting the Pak consulate. All three attackers and seven members of the security forces were killed in the assault, the first major IS attack in an Afghan city and on a Pak government installation. The group, which controls territory across Syria and Iraq, is making gradual inroads in Afghanistan, challenging the Taliban on their own turf. It has managed to attract disaffected Taliban fighters increasingly lured by the group's signature brutality. In a sign of its growing reach in Afghanistan, the group has taken to the airwaves with a 90-minute Pashto-language radio show. The government has said it is trying to block the broadcast, which is beamed from The uptick in violence comes amid renewed international efforts to revive peace talks with the Taliban, which are locked in a tussle for supremacy with the IS in Afghanistan. |
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