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| Four Afghans working for Indian firm shot dead near Kandahar |
| 2006-06-12 |
| KANDAHAR: Gunmen robbed and shot dead four Afghan men working for an Indian road construction company in southern Afghanistan, a provincial government spokesman said on Sunday. The men were killed on Saturday in a district of Kandahar province. It was too early to say if the Taliban were behind the attack in Maiwand district, Kandahar government spokesman Daud Ahmadi said. "We don't know who the attackers were affiliated to," he told AFP. The killers stole $80,000 and a four-wheel-drive vehicle the men had been travelling in, Ahmadi said. A purported Taliban spokesman was quoted in an Indian magazine last month warning Indians to wind up their construction projects in Afghanistan and leave the country. The statement was issued after Taliban militants abducted and killed an Indian engineer in late April in southern Zabul province. His headless body was found two days after he was captured. "We want all Indians to leave Afghanistan and shut down their projects here," Taliban spokesman Mohammed Hanif was quoted saying in an interview with The Outlook news magazine. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Thanks, Rambler. Another place Mr. Wife never took me, darn him! He was afraid I'd want to adopt all the street people, and the house isn't anywhere big enough. Apparently I have homeless kitten issues. We were discussing the language/dialect issue here the other day. Perhaps it'd be safest if I just said, thank you. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-06-12 21:24 |
| #4 The ISI has given orders that Indian economic activity should be curtailed. A former ISI chief even indirectly joked about the killing and beheading of the Indian road engineer. He wrote in a Pak newspaper that Pakistan's allies are quite happy playing "hindukushi". "Buzkushi" is an Afghan game on horseback, played with a decapitated goat. |
| Posted by: john 2006-06-12 19:04 |
| #3 Ooops. Dhanyavaad is thank you. |
| Posted by: Rambler 2006-06-12 15:28 |
| #2 Namaste means "hello" in Hindi. Dhanayavaad is thank you. Of course, Hindi is only one of about 14 official languages of India. |
| Posted by: Rambler 2006-06-12 15:27 |
| #1 How seductive the Taliban make their religion: even roads that improve trade between villages are haram. Contrast that with the courage of the Hindu construction workers, who sacrifice their comfort and even their lives to support their families. Namaste. (I think that's right -- does anyone know for certain?) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-06-12 11:36 |