KABUL (REUTERS) - A powerful explosion hit central Kabul on Sunday (July 28), wounding Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's running mate on the first day of official campaigning for a presidential election and killing at least two others, officials said.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KABUL - A powerful explosion hit central Kabul on Sunday , wounding Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's running mate on the first day of official campaigning for a presidential election and killing at least two others, officials said.
Immediately after the blast, gunmen stormed a nearby building belonging to vice-presidential candidate Amrullah Saleh's Afghan Green Trend Party.Photographs shared by a government official showed Mr Saleh sitting in a garden with blood stains on his right arm, surrounded by security guards. It follows chaotic parliamentary elections in October last year which were marred by violence and accusations of widespread fraud as well as serious organisational problems.
Mr Ghani, Mr Saleh and over a dozen other Afghan politicians, including Mr Hanif Atmar, another former intelligence chief and Mr Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former warlord in the anti-Soviet Mujahideen, launched their two-month presidential election campaign on Sunday. Mr Saleh, a former close associate of slain anti-Soviet Mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, who commands strong support among Afghanistan's minority ethnic Tajiks, was not immediately available for comment.
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