Tuesday 19 February 2013

Assassinations Soar In Afghanistan

Kabul: There has  been a decline in civilian deaths in line with the Winter lull but insurgent attacks on Afghan government employees soared last year by a staggering 700 per cent even as the overall civilian death toll from the war fell, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

The targeted killings of women in government service by Taliban-led insurgents was "particularly disturbing", the UN mission in Afghanistan said in its annual report on civilian casualties. From The Times of Oman.

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