Nasrat Shoaib
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/ 7 February 2006

Thirteen dead in Afghanistan bomb blast

Thirteen people were killed, mostly police, when a suicide bomber loyal to the ousted Taliban regime blew himself up at the police headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, officials said. A man claiming to be a spokesperson for the Taliban militia said the radical Sunni Muslim movement was responsible for the blast.

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/ 17 January 2006

Afghanistan reels after suicide attacks kill 26

Afghanistan’s border town of Spin Boldak was in shock on Tuesday after one of the biggest suicide bombings since the Taliban’s fall in 2001 killed 22 people leaving a wrestling match. Monday’s bombing in the town on the Pakistan border struck hours after another suicide blast in the nearby city of Kandahar killed three soldiers and a civilian.