Karzai under lockdown
President Hamid Karzai was moved to a safe area and his palace went into lockdown as Kabul was hit yesterday by a wave of attacks including a failed attempt to target one of his deputies, officials said.
The embattled president was discussing the budget with a group of lawmakers when explosions and gunfire rocked three locations in the capital, one of his aides said.
All his afternoon meetings, including one with a delegation of an insurgent group in Kabul for peace talks, were cancelled, the official said.
Additional bodyguards were deployed in the presidential palace and a meeting with a delegation of Hezb-i-Islami, an insurgent group led by former prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, now holding peace talks with Karzai was cancelled, the aide said.
Lutfullah Mashal, a spokesman for the National Directorate of Security (NDS), said that Mohamed Karim Khalili, one of Karzai’s two deputies was one of the targets of yesterday’s attacks.
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President Hamid Karzai was moved to a safe area and his palace went into lockdown as Kabul was hit yesterday by a wave of attacks including a failed attempt to target one of his deputies, officials said. The embattled president was discussing the budget with a group of lawmakers when explosions and gunfire rocked three locations in the capital, one of his aides said.
All his afternoon meetings, including one with a delegation of an insurgent group in Kabul for peace talks, were cancelled, the official said.
Additional bodyguards were deployed in the presidential palace and a meeting with a delegation of Hezb-i-Islami, an insurgent group led by former prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, now holding peace talks with Karzai was cancelled, the aide said.
Lutfullah Mashal, a spokesman for the National Directorate of Security (NDS), said that Mohamed Karim Khalili, one of Karzai’s two deputies was one of the targets of yesterday’s attacks.
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