NATO bombing kills 5 Afghan troops.

Nato airstrike kills five Afghan soldiers.

Dawn photo

Kabul | Dawn News | Mar 06 2014:: A provincial government official says an early morning Nato airstrike in Afghanistan's central Logar province killed five Afghan National Army soldiers and wounded another 17.

The official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorised to talk to the media, says the strike occurred at 2 am Thursday.

He said government officials were in meetings to decide their response and to conduct a further investigation into the incident.

There was no immediate response from Nato to requests for comment. If it turns out that a Nato strike killed ANA troops, it is likely to set Afghan President Hamid Karzai on another attack against US and Nato soldiers in his country.

The president has been deeply critical of civilian deaths by international forces.

An insurgent compound explodes after a U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer drops a 

38GBU  bomb on the facility in northern Bala Murghab Valley, Baghdis province, 

Afghanistan, April 4, 2011. Afghan officials say NATO forces accidentally bombed 

Afghan National Army forces in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, killing five and 

wounding at least eight others. COURTESY: U.S. AIR FORCE

Courtesy: Dawn.

Graveyard bomb kills 14 women and children in Afghan east.

Graveyard bomb kills 14 women and children in Afghan east.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrives for Eid al-Fitr
 prayer that marks the end of the Muslim holy month
of Ramadan in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, August
, 8, 2013. — Photo by AP

KABUL | 09 Aug 2013 ::  A bomb planted in an Afghan graveyard killed 14 women and children on Thursday, many of them present at the graveside of a family member during the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, officials said.

The bomb exploded in a rural district of eastern Nangarhar province, said the provincial governor's spokesman, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai.

Nangarhar and its capital, Jalalabad, have been racked by a series of bombings and suicide attacks over the last week.

It is common in Afghanistan on the first day of Eid for people to pay their respects at the graves of loved ones. The victims were mainly from one family, Abdulzai said.

Three women and one child were wounded, he added.

Three Afghan bodyguards for the Helmand province police chief, Mohammad Hakim Angaar, were killed on Wednesday in a suicide bombing, the provincial governor's spokesman, Omar Zwak, said.

In June, a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into the former Helmand police chief's convoy, wounding three.

President Karzai calls on Taliban to stop war

In a speech for the start of a Muslim holiday, the Afghan president has urged the Taliban to lay down their arms, join the political process and stop killing innocent civilians.

Hamid Karzai spoke Thursday after prayers for the Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. He thanked the Afghan security forces for their sacrifices in the war against the insurgency.

He says too many Afghans have lost their lives to roadside bombs during this year's Ramadan and that the violence should end.(Courtesy:Dawn)Read More>>>