Provincial legislator shot dead in Afghanistan

Karzai says turmoil shows extremist threat; Bush deplore Afghan bombing

KABUL: Unknown gunmen riding motorbikes shot dead a provincial legislator in southern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, in an assassination similar to others blamed on Taliban insurgents.

Din Mohammad, a member of the provincial council in southern Helmand province, was killed Tuesday — the same day a suicide attack killed six members of the national parliament in the north.

“Mr Din Mohammad was killed by two unknown men who were riding motorbikes. They made it off after killing him,” Abdul Manaf, the district chief of Helmand province’s Gereshk district, where the man was gunned down, told AFP.

Afghanistan’s deadliest suicide bombing and the turmoil in neighbouring Pakistan have demonstrated the gravity of the threat from extremism in the region, President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday.

Karzai declared three days of national mourning following Tuesday’s bombing in the northern town of Pul-i-Khumri which killed around 40 people, including six lawmakers and several children. The bombing and the upheaval in Pakistan, where President Pervez Musharraf imposed a state of emergency at the weekend, showed “the seriousness and gravity of the situation,” Karzai said.

“We are once again reiterating that the best way for stability in this part of the world, in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, is an effective, sincere, very, very serious fight against extremism and terrorism,” Karzai said. “Unless we do that, we’ll continue to suffer; unless we do that, we’ll continue to be unstable,” he said.

AP adds from Washington: President George W. Bush called Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday to deplore a suicide bombing that killed dozens of children and lawmakers gathered at a sugar factory in Baghlan province north of Kabul.

Bush expressed his sympathies and decried the bombers as “cold-blooded killers,” White House press secretary Dana Perino said. “The president said the murderous act reminds all of us about the brutality of the enemy we are facing, that their hearts are filled with evil and they only see with hate,” Perino said. “The president said that America cares deeply about the Afghan people and he urged President Karzai to stay strong.”

How people in Afghanistan will feel in this situation?

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i wonder where they gonna end.
hope that situation in Afghanistan will soon be peacefull and Afghanistan will lead to democracy.
said to hear about that death.
lets hope for the best...!

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I don't see any end and it will keep on going untill the death of the last afghan citizen.

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