This was yet another morally reprehensible, inhumane, and savage attack orchestrated by Pakistan in order to foment sectarian violence and further turmoil in Afghanistan. This should silence all the misinformed leftists who glorify the Taliban as some type of noble grassroots resistance movement. They're dogs of Pakistan who share no affinity with the Afghan people. ISAF and the Afghan Army must intensify this war and eradicate these scum. We've been too passive and fickle vis-a-vis these animals. Peace and reconciliation are out of the question. You don't negotiate with these kind of child-killing, immoral fanatics, you devise a strategy geared toward annihilating them once and for all.

yes NOTYOURMATEY is right. How long will people die ?
If some one kills your family and you are live alone, think what will be affect to you ???
why you are behind Afghanistan?? Tell me America ??
Why you want to kill whole Muslims ???
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has canceled a visit to the UK to return home following Tuesday's deadly blasts in the capital, Kabul, and in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif.

A spokesman for the Afghan embassy in London said Karzai had been due in London late Tuesday from Germany but was flying back to Afghanistan after the twin suicide attacks killed 60 people and wounded scores of others in the two cities.

A suicide bomber detonated a device at a Shiite shrine in Kabul, as worshippers were marking the Shiite holy day of Ashura, Afghan Health Ministry spokesman Kargar Norughli said. Fifty-six people were killed and 193 were wounded, Norughli added.

Four people were killed in an explosion at a roundabout on a busy street in Mazar-e Sharif, the provincial capital of Afghanistan's northern Balkh province, police official Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai said. Another 21 were wounded in that attack.

"The enemies tried to spread fear in this important holiday in the city," Ahmadzai said.

It was not immediately clear whether the attack in Mazar-e Sharif was linked to the attack in Kabul.

The Taliban denied involvement in Tuesday's attacks.

A Sunni group in Pakistan with a history of sectarian attacks against Shiites apparently claimed responsibility for the attack at the shrine, but it was not immediately clear whether the claim was vaild.

A man identifying himself as a spokesman for Lashkar-e-Janghvi al Almi, a group with links to al Qaeda and the Pakistan Taliban, made the claim in a call to Radio Mashaal, a Pashto-language station in Pakistan sponsored by the U.S. government.

The group is an offshoot of the powerful Lashkar-e-Janghvi (LeJ), which has a record of high-profile suicide bombings in Pakistan, including the attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad in 2008.

Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq, a leading Shiite member of Parliament, blamed "foreign criminals."

The attacks showed "that those who claim to be defenders of Islam" are liars, and showed "how far from humanity they are," he said.

The attackers committed "these crimes for the interest of those foreigners who are controlling them so that they could create hatred among Muslims in Afghanistan," he said.

In Iraq, where large-scale sectarian attacks have occurred frequently, government officials and analysts have said the goal of extremists was to foment sectarian tensions.

The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan issued a statement Tuesday condemning the "the twin suicide bombings that killed dozens of worshippers, many of them women and children."

The bombs detonated nearly simultaneously, the statement said.

Afghanistan has seen previous attacks on mosques. In 2006, rioting broke out between Shiites and Sunnis at an Ashura festival in Herat, leading to several deaths. But the country has not seen sectarian attacks of the scale that occurred Tuesday.

The attacks came a day after an international conference in Bonn, Germany, addressed the state of affairs in Afghanistan, and Afghan officials pushed for international support and contributions.

The U.S. Embassy statement Tuesday vowed that the United States "remains undeterred in standing with the Afghan people against the scourge of terrorism in our mutual aim of promoting peace and prosperity."

Gen. John Allen, commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force, said the attack on the Ashura pilgrims "on one of the holiest of days in the Islamic calendar is an attack against Islam itself, and we denounce and condemn these atrocities in the strongest of terms.

"Our prayers and deepest sympathies are with the families and loved ones of those innocent civilians killed or injured in today's horrific attacks," Allen said.

Ambassador Simon Gass, NATO's senior civilian representative in Afghanistan, called the attacks "horrifying."

"That men, women and children are killed and injured on Ashura is particularly tragic," he said.

Ashura commemorates the martyrdom of Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. Hussein's death in battle in Karbala, Iraq, in 680, is one of the events that helped create the schism between Sunnis and Shiites, the two main Muslim religious movements. Shiites are a minority presence in Afghanistan, which is predominantly Sunni.

At the Bonn conference on Monday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned that the Taliban could make a comeback as the country struggles with security, a decade after a U.S.-led coalition ousted the hard-line militia from power.

"If we lose this fight, we are threatened with a return to a situation like that before September 11, 2001," Karzai said.

In an e-mailed statement to journalists, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid condemned Tuesday's attacks. He accused NATO forces of playing a role in the attacks "to sow mistrust and hatred among Muslims so they can stay longer."

Karzai, at Monday's conference, said that though there had been progress over the past 10 years, stability remains a distant goal.

"Our shared goal of a stable, self-reliant Afghanistan is far from being achieved," he said.
This is the news by CNN. Why you do not want peace ???
Please let every one live in peace. :)

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Just like India, Afghanistan is destined to suffer at the hands of Pakistan unless U. S. goes in Pakistan to correct the mistake it made in 2001 of not ‘bombing Pakistan to stone age’.

Duplicitous Pakistan has successfully cornered U. S. - U. S. can NOT use its aid leverage to force Pakistan to stop supporting terrorist groups who kill US/NATO troops in Afghanistan day in and day out since 2001 because US needs Pakistan’s help in ferrying supplies to those very US/NATO troops.

And after ten long years of war fueled and sustained by America’s own ally Pakistan, US is ready to throw in the towel. Obama administration is already begging Pakistan to provide access to Afghan Taliban leaders safely ensconced under Pakistani ISI/Army's protection. A facade of peace deal as dictated by Pakistan will be reached with Afghan Taliban leaders chosen by Pakistan. US will begin its drawdown and finally exit the theater of a war it is desperate not to be seen as having lost, not so much to the Taliban and Al Qaeda as to the wily Generals of Rawalpindi who have proved to be smarter than the Americans.

That facade of peace will crumble within few years after the departure of US troops and Pakistan will bring Afghanistan under its suzerainty with reimposition of Taliban rule just as it did in 1996 while tired and financially broke Uncle Sam will helplessly look the other way.

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The story was about a religious festival being attacked. What was the need to enter in pictures from Pakistan? What kind of reporting is this FP?

I hope this photograph was on the display in Bonn for all the decision makers to see, 2014 suddenly seems a lot closer.

Karzai said he is open to having American forces remain on bases in Afghanistan after 2014 provided they met several conditions, including the end of nighttime raids and house searches, the closure of internationally run prisons and recognition of Afghanistan's sovereignty. He elicited cheers from the audience when he compared Afghanistan to an aging lion that is still capable of standing up the USA and other nations when it needs to.

The U.S.-led coalition has said that night operations to kill or capture insurgents are an effective way to keep pressure on militants while minimizing the risk to innocent civilians. Coalition officials say Afghan forces are the first in the door of any raid and that most of the operations are conducted without a shot fired. Karzai and some tribal leaders say that the troops conducting night raids treat too many civilians as if they were insurgents and violate citizens' privacy.

Much of Kabul went into a security lockdown ahead of the meeting, with extra roads closed and intelligence agents swarming the meeting hall on the outskirts of the city. At the last such meeting in June Taliban insurgents fired into a tent where the tribal leaders gathered. No one was harmed. Some Afghan leaders said Karzai's warm reception at the loya jirga could be deceptive because it was the president who organized the meeting.

"It is just government supporters and people from provinces handpicked to attend by provincial governors," said Wagma Sapai, a member of parliament from Kunar province.

Yesterday after our mentoring sessions were over, we spent the afternoon readying our MRAPs for what would have been a long mission. Had everything went as planned, we would have been driving on the road at O-dark-thirty hours. Around 0800 hrs this morning, we were given the order to “stand down” (Army lingo to stop what you are doing). Our mission was canceled and another unit was taking over. In reality we were never given the execution order, but we prepared accordingly. Since the vehicles were mission ready, our ETT leader decided to go on a different mission so some electronic repairs could be made to a vital piece of equipment. We would all meet after lunch and depart for Camp Phoenix.

While this was going on, some members of my team were taking the ANA soldiers out to the shooting range. My teammates just finished providing M-16 rifle training to them and today they were going to practice their marksmanship. The class has generally been taught by Army soldiers or civilian contractors, but the AF TSgt in the picture has been instructing them. Once the ANA soldiers show their proficiency with the rifles, at a future date, they will trade in their Soviet AK-47 rifles in exchange for a NATO M-16 rifle.

arzai said he is open to having American forces remain on bases in Afghanistan after 2014 provided they met several conditions, including the end of nighttime raids and house searches, the closure of internationally run prisons and recognition of Afghanistan's sovereignty. He elicited cheers from the audience when he compared Afghanistan to an aging lion that is still capable of standing up the USA and other nations when it needs to.

The U.S.-led coalition has said that night operations to kill or capture insurgents are an effective way to keep pressure on militants while minimizing the risk to innocent civilians. Coalition officials say Afghan forces are the first in the door of any raid and that most of the operations are conducted without a shot fired. Karzai and some tribal leaders say that the troops conducting night raids treat too many civilians as if they were insurgents and violate citizens' privacy.

Much of Kabul went into a security lockdown ahead of the meeting, with extra roads closed and intelligence agents swarming the meeting hall on the outskirts of the city. At the last such meeting in June Taliban insurgents fired into a tent where the tribal leaders gathered. No one was harmed. Some Afghan leaders said Karzai's warm reception at the loya jirga could be deceptive because it was the president who organized the meeting.

"It is just government supporters and people from provinces handpicked to attend by provincial governors," said Wagma Sapai, a member of parliament from Kunar province.

Yesterday after our mentoring sessions were over, we spent the afternoon readying our MRAPs for what would have been a long mission. Had everything went as planned, we would have been driving on the road at O-dark-thirty hours. Around 0800 hrs this morning, we were given the order to “stand down” (Army lingo to stop what you are doing). Our mission was canceled and another unit was taking over. In reality we were never given the execution order, but we prepared accordingly. Since the vehicles were mission ready, our ETT leader decided to go on a different mission so some electronic repairs could be made to a vital piece of equipment. We would all meet after lunch and depart for Camp Phoenix.

While this was going on, some members of my team were taking the ANA soldiers out to the shooting range. My teammates just finished providing M-16 rifle training to them and today they were going to practice their marksmanship. The class has generally been taught by Army soldiers or civilian contractors, but the AF TSgt in the picture has been instructing them. Once the ANA soldiers show their proficiency with the rifles, at a future date, they will trade in their Soviet AK-47 rifles in exchange for a NATO M-16 rifle.

arzai said he is open to having American forces remain on bases in Afghanistan after 2014 provided they met several conditions, including the end of nighttime raids and house searches, the closure of internationally run prisons and recognition of Afghanistan's sovereignty. He elicited cheers from the audience when he compared Afghanistan to an aging lion that is still capable of standing up the USA and other nations when it needs to.

The U.S.-led coalition has said that night operations to kill or capture insurgents are an effective way to keep pressure on militants while minimizing the risk to innocent civilians. Coalition officials say Afghan forces are the first in the door of any raid and that most of the operations are conducted without a shot fired. Karzai and some tribal leaders say that the troops conducting night raids treat too many civilians as if they were insurgents and violate citizens' privacy.

Much of Kabul went into a security lockdown ahead of the meeting, with extra roads closed and intelligence agents swarming the meeting hall on the outskirts of the city. At the last such meeting in June Taliban insurgents fired into a tent where the tribal leaders gathered. No one was harmed. Some Afghan leaders said Karzai's warm reception at the loya jirga could be deceptive because it was the president who organized the meeting.

"It is just government supporters and people from provinces handpicked to attend by provincial governors," said Wagma Sapai, a member of parliament from Kunar province.

Yesterday after our mentoring sessions were over, we spent the afternoon readying our MRAPs for what would have been a long mission. Had everything went as planned, we would have been driving on the road at O-dark-thirty hours. Around 0800 hrs this morning, we were given the order to “stand down” (Army lingo to stop what you are doing). Our mission was canceled and another unit was taking over. In reality we were never given the execution order, but we prepared accordingly. Since the vehicles were mission ready, our ETT leader decided to go on a different mission so some electronic repairs could be made to a vital piece of equipment. We would all meet after lunch and depart for Camp Phoenix.

While this was going on, some members of my team were taking the ANA soldiers out to the shooting range. My teammates just finished providing M-16 rifle training to them and today they were going to practice their marksmanship. The class has generally been taught by Army soldiers or civilian contractors, but the AF TSgt in the picture has been instructing them. Once the ANA soldiers show their proficiency with the rifles, at a future date, they will trade in their Soviet AK-47 rifles in exchange for a NATO M-16 rifle.

arzai said he is open to having American forces remain on bases in Afghanistan after 2014 provided they met several conditions, including the end of nighttime raids and house searches, the closure of internationally run prisons and recognition of Afghanistan's sovereignty. He elicited cheers from the audience when he compared Afghanistan to an aging lion that is still capable of standing up the USA and other nations when it needs to.

The U.S.-led coalition has said that night operations to kill or capture insurgents are an effective way to keep pressure on militants while minimizing the risk to innocent civilians. Coalition officials say Afghan forces are the first in the door of any raid and that most of the operations are conducted without a shot fired. Karzai and some tribal leaders say that the troops conducting night raids treat too many civilians as if they were insurgents and violate citizens' privacy.

Much of Kabul went into a security lockdown ahead of the meeting, with extra roads closed and intelligence agents swarming the meeting hall on the outskirts of the city. At the last such meeting in June Taliban insurgents fired into a tent where the tribal leaders gathered. No one was harmed. Some Afghan leaders said Karzai's warm reception at the loya jirga could be deceptive because it was the president who organized the meeting.

"It is just government supporters and people from provinces handpicked to attend by provincial governors," said Wagma Sapai, a member of parliament from Kunar province.

Yesterday after our mentoring sessions were over, we spent the afternoon readying our MRAPs for what would have been a long mission. Had everything went as planned, we would have been driving on the road at O-dark-thirty hours. Around 0800 hrs this morning, we were given the order to “stand down” (Army lingo to stop what you are doing). Our mission was canceled and another unit was taking over. In reality we were never given the execution order, but we prepared accordingly. Since the vehicles were mission ready, our ETT leader decided to go on a different mission so some electronic repairs could be made to a vital piece of equipment. We would all meet after lunch and depart for Camp Phoenix.

While this was going on, some members of my team were taking the ANA soldiers out to the shooting range. My teammates just finished providing M-16 rifle training to them and today they were going to practice their marksmanship. The class has generally been taught by Army soldiers or civilian contractors, but the AF TSgt in the picture has been instructing them. Once the ANA soldiers show their proficiency with the rifles, at a future date, they will trade in their Soviet AK-47 rifles in exchange for a NATO M-16 rifle.

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i Agree in NOT use its aid leverage to force Pakistan to stop supporting terrorist groups who kill US/NATO troops in Afghanistan day in and day out since 2001 because US needs Pakistan’s marksmanship help in ferrying supplies to those very US/NATO troops.