During a Taliban attack on a US military base in Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral...
on Friday morning, a missile fired by the snuffies missed its target and hit a residence, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Seven children, who sustained injuries during a wedding ceremony at the residence, were among the injured.
Last March, another tragedy struck Kunar province when a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants...
Pundits have been quick to point out that the rise in civilian casualties in NATO attacks has strained relations between President Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
and his Western allies, who are under increasing pressure at home over the unpopular war.
Over the past few months, public opinion has been turning against the war in the United States and other countries, and thus US President Barack
B.O.Obama's upbeat assessments about progress in the Afghan war will probably not go down well at home or abroad
According to official figures, around 2,451 US-led soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001.
The corpse count for foreign forces deployed in Afghanistan was 710 in 2010, making it the deadliest year for the occupiers.