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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Ex-British ambassador criticises 2014 withdrawal as Karzai accuses terrorist group in Pakistan for attack that killed 59

A former British ambassador to Afghanistan today denounced the 2014 deadline for the withdrawal of troops from the country as a further bombing in the country claimed the lives of 19 civilians.
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, ambassador from 2007 to 2009, said the move was 'worse than questionable, it's disgraceful' if it was not accompanied by a determined peace process...Continue Reading...

(Radio Free Europe) Pakistani Extremist Group In Focus After Unprecedented Attack On Afghan Shi'a

As Afghanistan recovers from a deadly and unprecedented attack on a Shi'ite shrine in Kabul, the finger of blame is pointing directly at a Sunni extremist group with a long history of carrying out such attacks in neighboring Pakistan.....Continue Reading...

(Abbas Daiyar) Kabul attacks: who is behind the suicide bombing?

The sectarian attack in Kabul on Tuesday was first of its kind in Afghanistan. Though the Taliban quickly disowned the attack, it doesn't mean involvement by elements from different Taliban groups can be ruled out. Previously they have committed sectarian-oriented war crimes, such as the Mazar and Yakawlang massacres during their rule in Afghanistan....Continue Reading....

(Aljazeera) Complicating sectarianism in Afghanistan

In the hours following Tuesday’s Ashoura Day attacks on Shia Afghans in Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif, online and offline discourse quickly turned to talk of a resurgence of sectarian violence based on religious or ethnic lines in Afghanistan.

The Guardian asked if the Kabul attack was "a sectarian or an ethnic atrocity?" The Financial Times said the bombings "raise sectarian strife fears", The Telegraph drew "parallels with Iraq", Foreign Policy called it "rare Afghan anti-Shia violence" and the BBC simply asked "Why have Afghanistan’s Shias been targeted now?"...Continue Reading....