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Bosonic Donating Member (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 07:47 AM
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Afghan leader to confront Pakistan over attack
Source: AP

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's president says that the unprecedented suicide bombing at a Shiite shrine in Kabul originated in Pakistan and is pledging to confront the Pakistani government about the attack.

President Hamid Karzai spoke Wednesday as he visited a hospital where scores of people wounded in the attack are being treated. At least 56 people, including an American citizen, were killed in the explosion, which occurred as Shiites were commemorating the major Islamic holy day of Ashoura.

Karzai says the Afghan government has launched an investigation, but the group behind the attack is based in Pakistan and he will take the issue to the Pakistani government.

Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Afghan-leader-to-confront-Pakistan-over-attack-2355922.php
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